Midst

/mɪdst/ · noun

Meaning

(often literary) A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location..

Definitions by Sense

1. (often literary) A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.
2. (rare) Among, in the middle of; amidst.

Example Sentences

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."

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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Word Forms

• midsts
• midest
• middest
• middis
• middst
• myddest
• mydest
• myddis
• myddst
• mydst

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