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Definition of mid-century in English: mid-centurynoun The middle of a century. the world's population is expected to reach 9.6 billion by mid-century Example sentencesExamples - A different social dimension was introduced mid-century with Ruskin's passionate advocacy of liberal art education.
- By the mid-century the institutions, markets and practices we associate with cultural production were firmly established.
- Between 1830 and mid-century, colonial licensing laws were repealed, temporary, or rarely enforced.
- At mid-century men engaged in intercolonial trade rather than in tobacco planting and those who cultivated strong Dutch connections owned more than a fourth of all the slaves in Virginia.
- The most successful artist of the mid-century was Boucher.
- By mid-century the Federal Reserve System had become a bona fide central bank with headquarters in Washington.
- The expansion of agricultural land and farm numbers continued well into the 1900s, but by mid-century both trends had been reversed.
- The French landscape artists of the mid-century are also accorded their proper place here.
- Historical genre was gradually eclipsed by scenes from a semi-imaginary Orient, a reflection of the colonialism of the mid-century.
- It's likely the legend of Robin Hood arose in mid-century or maybe a little earlier, during the reigns of Edward II or Edward III.
adjective Characteristic of or occurring in the middle of a century. mid-century modernist architecture the mid-century wars generated much patriotic rhetoric Example sentencesExamples - She noted that the schemes of the mid-century urban planners could not have destroyed neighborhoods better if they had been designed to do so.
- It is hard to envision any stable European system emerging to replace the one finally buried in these last of the mid-century wars.
- There is almost no trace of mid-century Western art in any museum in Russia.
- The mid-century domestic political upheavals in France altered the pace and nature of the French colonial impact in North Africa.
- Like any Southern California Modernist, Schmidt reveres Neutra's mid-century architecture.
- Clashes continued, as it proved impossible in peacetime to reduce the burden of taxes first justified by the demands of mid-century wars.
- The general recovery of the English Church from mid-century disarray can be traced in the evidence from the 1590s onwards of widespread restoration of church buildings and refurnishing for the Protestant liturgy.
- She does present the reader with an intriguing picture of how women of the "popular classes" fit into the changing economy of mid-century Paris.
- His modular creations upended mid-century design.
- In mid-century America, it was against the law for a pension fund to invest all but a small part of its portfolio in stocks.
Definition of mid-century in US English: mid-centurynoun The middle of a century. the world's population is expected to reach 9.6 billion by mid-century Example sentencesExamples - It's likely the legend of Robin Hood arose in mid-century or maybe a little earlier, during the reigns of Edward II or Edward III.
- At mid-century men engaged in intercolonial trade rather than in tobacco planting and those who cultivated strong Dutch connections owned more than a fourth of all the slaves in Virginia.
- By mid-century the Federal Reserve System had become a bona fide central bank with headquarters in Washington.
- A different social dimension was introduced mid-century with Ruskin's passionate advocacy of liberal art education.
- The expansion of agricultural land and farm numbers continued well into the 1900s, but by mid-century both trends had been reversed.
- By the mid-century the institutions, markets and practices we associate with cultural production were firmly established.
- The most successful artist of the mid-century was Boucher.
- The French landscape artists of the mid-century are also accorded their proper place here.
- Between 1830 and mid-century, colonial licensing laws were repealed, temporary, or rarely enforced.
- Historical genre was gradually eclipsed by scenes from a semi-imaginary Orient, a reflection of the colonialism of the mid-century.
adjective Characteristic of or occurring in the middle of a century. mid-century modernist architecture the mid-century wars generated much patriotic rhetoric Example sentencesExamples - The mid-century domestic political upheavals in France altered the pace and nature of the French colonial impact in North Africa.
- She noted that the schemes of the mid-century urban planners could not have destroyed neighborhoods better if they had been designed to do so.
- In mid-century America, it was against the law for a pension fund to invest all but a small part of its portfolio in stocks.
- Like any Southern California Modernist, Schmidt reveres Neutra's mid-century architecture.
- There is almost no trace of mid-century Western art in any museum in Russia.
- She does present the reader with an intriguing picture of how women of the "popular classes" fit into the changing economy of mid-century Paris.
- His modular creations upended mid-century design.
- It is hard to envision any stable European system emerging to replace the one finally buried in these last of the mid-century wars.
- The general recovery of the English Church from mid-century disarray can be traced in the evidence from the 1590s onwards of widespread restoration of church buildings and refurnishing for the Protestant liturgy.
- Clashes continued, as it proved impossible in peacetime to reduce the burden of taxes first justified by the demands of mid-century wars.
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