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In some senses, midst is marked as literary, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
midst
/mɪdst/
noun 1prep 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
3-month-old, gay, hopeless, lewd, live, rebel, vast
VERB + MIDST
appears, fainted, lie, place, screamed, sitting
MIDST + NOUN
disaster, drug, egypt, life, mist, rumours, sea, speech
PREP.
in, into, out
ADV.
always
Definitions
noun
1
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.
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.
prep
1
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 breaks
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — the location of something surrounded by other things
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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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
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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.
Wiktionary03
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."
Wiktionary04
Mildred comes home from work early only to discover her husband, Robert, midst of a lewd affair with their neighbor, Gladys.
Wiktionary05
She puts the period often from his place ; And 'midst the sentence so her accent breaks
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Your gift was like discovery of an oasis in the midst of a desert.
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