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midst

noun
/mɪdst/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from midde
  2. inherited from middes

Definitions

  1. A place in the middle of something

    A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.

    • 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.
    • 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."

  2. Among, in the middle of

    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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at midst. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at midst. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at midst

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA