midst
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English in middes (“in the middle”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
midst (plural midsts)
- (often literary) A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.
- 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Affair at the Novelty Theatre[1]:
- 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.
- 1995, Pitts, Mary Ellen, Toward a Dialogue of Understandings: Loren Eiseley and the Critique of Science, page 225:
- 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.
- 2002, Schlueter, Nathan W., quoting Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream, 1963, speech, quoted in 'One Dream Or Two?: Justice in America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.', page 89:
- 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."
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
place in the middle of something
Preposition[edit]
midst
- (rare) Among, in the middle of; amid.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:midst.
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
in the middle of
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