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in their midst — in our/their/your midst formal phrase if someone is in your midst, they are with you as part of your group Nobody recognized the stranger in their midst. Thesaurus: between and amongsynonym Main entry: midst * * * in their/our/its/your midst … Useful english dictionary
midst — [ mıdst ] noun uncount * in the midst of something FORMAL 1. ) while something else is happening: Nixon went to China in the midst of a crisis at home. 2. ) if you are in the midst of something, you are doing it or it is affecting you: Our… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
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}.] [1913 Webster] 1. The interior or central part or place; the … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
midst — [midst, mitst] n. [ME middest, prob. merging of middes, gen. of mid (with unhistoric t) + middest, superl. of mid,MID1] the middle or central part: now mainly in phrases as below prep. Old Poet. in the midst of; amidst; amid SYN. MIDDLE in our… … English World dictionary
midst — archaic or literary ► PREPOSITION ▪ in the middle of. ► NOUN ▪ the middle point or part. ● in our (or your, their, etc.) midst Cf. ↑in your/their midst … English terms dictionary
midst — is now most commonly used in the phrases in the midst of or in our (etc.) midst, meaning ‘among, in the middle of’. Typical contexts are both physical and abstract: • There was…something sinister about this place, unhusbanded and yieldless in the … Modern English usage
in our/your/their midst — ► in our (or your, their, etc.) midst among us (or you or them). Main Entry: ↑midst … English terms dictionary
in their midst — ► in our (or your, their, etc.) midst among us (or you or them). Main Entry: ↑midst … English terms dictionary
in your/their midst — ► in our (or your, their, etc.) midst among us (or you or them). Main Entry: ↑midst … English terms dictionary
midst */ — UK [mɪdst] / US noun [uncountable] in our/their/your midst formal if someone is in your midst, they are with you as part of your group Nobody recognized the stranger in their midst. in the midst of something … English dictionary
midst — midst1 /midst/, n. 1. the position of anything surrounded by other things or parts, or occurring in the middle of a period of time, course of action, etc. (usually prec. by the): a familiar face in the midst of the crowd; in the midst of the… … Universalium
