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midst

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/mɪdst/
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/mɪdst/ · [mɪdst] · [mɪtst]

Definition of midst

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (literary, often)A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.
    “Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.”
    “At dawn, in the midst of a mist that is both literal and the unformed shifting of thought, he encounters a young fox pup playfully shaking a bone.”
    “As he said in "I Have a Dream," the Negro "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."”
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noun

  1. (literary, often)A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.
    “Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.”
    “At dawn, in the midst of a mist that is both literal and the unformed shifting of thought, he encounters a young fox pup playfully shaking a bone.”
    “As he said in "I Have a Dream," the Negro "lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity."”

prep

  1. (rare)Among, in the middle of; amidst.
    “Mildred comes home from work early only to discover her husband, Robert, midst of a lewd affair with their neighbor, Gladys.”
    “She puts the period often from his place ; And 'midst the sentence so her accent breaks”

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Etymology

From Middle English middes, midst, myddest (“middle”), from Old English midde, reshaped in Middle English phrases like in middes (“in the middle”) by analogy with adverbs in -(e)s; also compare Old English on middan, tōmiddes. Forms in -(e)st are probably due to influence of superlatives.

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