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midst
What does midst mean?
midst (noun): the location of something surrounded by other things.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use midst in a sentence?
- In the midst of the crowd. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce midst?
/mɪdst/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does midst come from?
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.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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