midst
/mɪdst/
midst noun: a place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.
Noun
midst (plural midsts)
- 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...
- 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.1995, Mary Ellen Pitts, Toward a Dialogue of Understandings: Loren Eiseley and the Critique of Science, page 225
Preposition
midst
- 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 breaks1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC
midst meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
midst in Tamil
- இடைப்பட்ட பகுதி
midst in Urdu
- midst
- اثنا asnā
midst in Bengali
- the midst or company
- মাঝ majh
- midst, middle, within
- ভিতর bhitor
midst in Malayalam
- നടു, കേന്ദ്രം, മധ്യസ്ഥാനം
More languagesFewer languages
- midst in Kannada
- ನಡುವೆ, ಮಧ್ಯೆ
- midst in Assamese
- সোঁ xü̃
- midst in Arabic
- فِي مُنْتَصَف fī muntaṣaf, وَسْطَ wasṭa
Examples of midst in a sentence
- The officer was violently cudgeled down in the midst of the rioters.
- We are in the midst of a full-blown crisis.
- Coal country in America is in the midst of a historic transition.
Synonyms of midst
Forms of midst
| plural | midsts |
|---|---|
| alternative form | midest |
| alternative form | middest |
| alternative form | middis |
| alternative form | middst |
| alternative form | myddest |
| alternative form | mydest |
| alternative form | myddis |
| alternative form | myddst |
| alternative form | mydst |
Origin of midst
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.
Words formed from midst
Words that rhyme with midst
Questions about midst
- What does midst mean?
- Midst means a place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.
- What is midst in Tamil?
- Midst in Tamil is இடைப்பட்ட பகுதி. See Midst meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is midst?
- Midst can be a noun or a preposition.
- How do you pronounce midst?
- Midst is pronounced /mɪdst/.
- What is the plural of midst?
- The plural of midst is midsts.
Words near midst in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: midst (page history and authors); midst (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اثنا (Urdu) (page history and authors); ভিতর (Bengali) (page history and authors); midst (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); midst (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); সোঁ (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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