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Midst vs Mid - What's the difference?

midst | mid |

As nouns the difference between midst and mid

is that midst is a place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location while mid is middle.

As prepositions the difference between midst and mid

is that midst is among, in the middle of; amid while mid is with.

As an adjective mid is

denoting the middle part.

midst

English

Alternative forms

* midest (obsolete) * middis (obsolete) * middst (obsolete) * middest (obsolete) * myddis (obsolete) * mydst (obsolete) * mydest (obsolete) * myddst (obsolete) * myddest (obsolete)

Noun

(-)
  • (often, literary) A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=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.}}
  • * 1995 , Mary Ellen Pitts, Toward a Dialogue of Understandings: Loren Eiseley and the Critique of Science , page 225,
    • 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.
  • * 2002', Nathan W. Schlueter, ''One Dream Or Two?: Justice in America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr.'', page 89], quoting '''1963 , , ''[[w:I Have a Dream, I Have a Dream] , speech,
    • 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."

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (rare) Among, in the middle of; amid.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "midst")

    Synonyms

    * amid * amidst

    Derived terms

    * in the midst * in one's midst

    Anagrams

    *

    mid

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (obsolete) With.
  • Amid.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mid, midde, from (etyl) . See also middle .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Denoting the middle part.
    • mid ocean
  • Occupying a middle position; middle.
    • mid finger
    mid hour of night
  • (linguistics) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds; as, a (ale), / (/ll), / (/ld).
    • Derived terms
    * mid-autumn * midfall * midseason * midshipman * midsummer * mid-winter
    Related terms
    * midday * midnight

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) mid, midde, from (etyl) . See also median, Latin medianus.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) middle
  • * Shakespeare
    • About the mid of night come to my tent.

    Anagrams

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