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myddst

myddst 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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Questions about myddst

What is myddst the obsolete form of?
Myddst is the obsolete form of midst.

Words near myddst in the dictionary

  1. myddle
  2. myddles
  3. Myddleton
  4. myddosome
  5. myddosomes
  6. myddst
  7. mydest
  8. mydid
  9. mydids
  10. mydriases
  11. mydriasis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: myddst (page history and authors); midst (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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