What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Mydest vs Midst - What's the difference?

mydest | midst | Alternative forms |

Mydest is an alternative form of midst.


As nouns the difference between mydest and midst

is that mydest is while midst is (often|literary) a place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location .

As a preposition midst is

(rare) among, in the middle of; amid.

mydest

English

Noun

  • 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)

    Synonyms

    * amid * amidst

    Derived terms

    * in the midst * in one's midst

    Anagrams

    *