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midst

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"Middle"

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5 lettersPronunciation /mɪdst/Part of speech nounSorted dimstStarts with MEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the location of something surrounded by other things

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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