Midst

Definitions

A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.

literary, often

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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."”

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