Crossword clues for midst
midst
- ___ Mix
- Central area
- Opposite of edge
- In the ___ of (surrounded by)
- In the ___ of (amongst)
- "There's a spy in our ___!"
- In the thick
- During, in poems
- Yolanda Adams "In the ___ of It All"
- Inner location
- In the center of, in poems
- In the -- of (during)
- In the -- of (amongst)
- In the __ of
- Central region
- Center spot
- Center of a crowd
- Area within
- "There's a traitor in our ___!"
- "In the ___ of This" (Expatriate)
- "A living faith will last in the __ of the blackest storm": Gandhi
- Central spot
- Central position
- Center, in poesy
- Thick (of)
- Heart
- Presence
- In the ___ of (among)
- The location of something surrounded by other things
- Among
- " . . . in the ___ of them": Matt. 18:20
- In the thick of
- In our ___ (with us)
- Middle digits dimwits partly raised
- Core component of racism I'd studied
- Poet's surrounded by daughters in film
- Thick? Way beyond stupid, on reflection!
- Thick fog envelops easternmost part of England
- Thick (of things)
- Central point
- Central part
- Central portion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Midst \Midst\, n. [From middest, in the middest, for older in middes, where -s is adverbial (orig. forming a genitive), or still older a midde, a midden, on midden. See Mid, and cf. Amidst.]
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The interior or central part or place; the middle; -- used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest.
And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him.
--Luke iv. 35.There is nothing . . . in the midst [of the play] which might not have been placed in the beginning.
--Dryden. -
Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs.
Note: The expressions in our midst, in their midst, etc., are avoided by some good writers, the forms in the midst of us, in the midst of them, etc., being preferred.
Syn: Midst, Middle.
Usage: Midst in present usage commonly denotes a part or place surrounded on enveloped by or among other parts or objects (see Amidst); while middle is used of the center of length, or surface, or of a solid, etc. We say in the midst of a thicket; in the middle of a line, or the middle of a room; in the midst of darkness; in the middle of the night.
Midst \Midst\, prep.
In the midst of; amidst.
--Shak.
Midst \Midst\, adv.
In the middle. [R.]
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. (context often literary English) A place in the middle of something; ''may be used of a literal or metaphorical location''. n. (context often literary English) A place in the middle of something; ''may be used of a literal or metaphorical location''. prep. (context rare English) among, in the middle of; amid.
WordNet
n. the location of something surrounded by other things; "in the midst of the crowd" [syn: thick]
Usage examples of "midst".
His horse troops were affrighted and dispersed by balls of fire which flew into their midst, trailing sparks and whistling and banging.
This nature, positive in the midst of its enthusiasms, that had loved the church for the sake of the flowers, and music for the words of the songs, and literature for its passional stimulus, rebelled against the mysteries of faith as it grew irritated by discipline, a thing antipathetic to her constitution.
Burke will always be read with delight and edification, because in the midst of discussions on the local and the accidental, he scatters apophthegms that take us into the regions of lasting wisdom.
South stretched the wide expanse of the valley, with the broad Turnbull flashing in the midst and sweeping away to the west in lazy curves quite different from the arrowy little stream which he knew near the cave and through his own territory.
They my-loved and my-deared each other assiduously, but kept apart generally, whereas Sir Pitt, in the midst of his multiplied avocations, found daily time to see his sister-in-law.
Bright, who had preceded us and stood in the midst like a General of Division, ordering autocratically and issuing commands for fresh supplies, as if he was going to banquet the southern district en musse.
In the midst of all the litter de Batz at last became conscious of two people who stood staring at him and at Heron.
There are those in my own clans who have dared almost to defy me completely because there is a Bedlam now living in the midst of my kingdom.
Vivian was probably sorry as well, for she had a slightly confused and preoccupied look--a look from which, even in the midst of his chagrin, Bernard extracted some entertainment.
Exactly, my dear sir, as the radio for ten minutes together projects the most lovely music without regard into the most impossible places, into respectable drawing rooms and attics and into the midst of chattering, guzzling, yawning and sleeping listeners, and exactly as it strips this music of its sensuous beauty, spoils and scratches and beslimes it and yet cannot altogether destroy its spirit, just so does life, the so-called reality, deal with the sublime picture-play of the world and make a hurley-burley of it.
Tatooine and Hoth and Bespin through his mind, he strode into the midst of the fight, the blue-white blade spattering bolts of enemy fire and shattering across the weapons themselves.
His rifle work was a revelation of genius--like the work of a prodigious young pianist or billiardist in the midst of mere natural excellence.
The bilobed leaf, with the midrib likewise tipped with a bristle, stands in the midst of these projections, and is evidently defended by them.
One day in the midst of a good Act of Contrition, Father Blau officiating with pious malice, I leaped from the box and sprinted down the aisle, never to return.
Troy felt like a tiny piece of flotsam in the midst of a hurricane as he looked out the opening door that led to the bottomless pit of space.