midst
pronunciation
How to pronounce midst in British English:
UK [mɪdst]
How to pronounce midst in American English:
US [mɪdst]
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- Noun:
- the location of something surrounded by other things
Word Origin
- midst (n.)
- c. 1400, from Middle English middes (mid-14c.), from mid + adverbial genitive -s. The parasitic -t is perhaps on model of superlatives (compare against).
Example
- 1. But , in their midst , there is one truly strange character .
- 2. Cesar stood in the midst of all the dogs , his back straight and his shoulders square .
- 3. Now we 're in the midst of another crisis , the worst since the 1930s .
- 4. We are standing in the midst of a killing field ......
- 5. For eight years residents of hongwei have been waging a fruitless struggle to find the cause of high rates of serious illness in their midst .