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middest

middest is the obsolete form of midst.

Meaning of midst

Noun

midst (plural midsts)

  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.1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition...
    Synonyms:
    centre, center, middle

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Adjective

middest (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Situated nearest the middle; middlemost; midmost.
    • Yet the stout Faerie mongst the middest crowd.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 15

Forms of middest

pluralmiddests

Questions about middest

What does middest mean?
Middest means situated nearest the middle; middlemost; midmost.
What is middest the obsolete form of?
Middest is the obsolete form of midst.
What part of speech is middest?
Middest is an adjective.

Words near middest in the dictionary

  1. middens
  2. middenstead
  3. middensteads
  4. midder
  5. midders
  6. middest
  7. middests
  8. middie
  9. middies
  10. midding
  11. middings

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