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Midway vs Midmost - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between midway and midmost

is that midway is being in the middle of the way or distance; middle while midmost is in the exact middle, or nearest to the exact middle; middlemost.

As a noun midway

is the middle; the midst.

As an adverb midway

is halfway; equidistant from either end point; in the middle between two points.

As a proper noun Midway

is a town in Alabama.

midway

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The middle; the midst.
  • A middle way or manner; a mean or middle course between extremes.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * Milton
    • Paths indirect, or in the midway faint.
  • (US) The part of a fair or circus where rides, entertainments, and booths are concentrated.
  • (US) The widest aisle in the middle of an industrial complex (such as railroad shops or a coach yard) along which various buildings are aligned

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Being in the middle of the way or distance; middle.

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • Halfway; equidistant from either end point; in the middle between two points
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=It shell-shocked the home crowd, who quickly demanded a response, which came midway through the half and in emphatic fashion.}}

    midmost

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • In the exact middle, or nearest to the exact middle; middlemost
  • * 1908 ,
    • A wide half-circle of foam and glinting lights and shining shoulders of green water, the great weir closed the backwater from bank to bank, troubled all the quiet surface with twirling eddies and floating foam-streaks, and deadened all other sounds with its solemn and soothing rumble. In midmost of the stream, embraced in the weir's shimmering arm-spread, a small island lay anchored, fringed close with willow and silver birch and alder.