MIDST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does midst mean? 

• MIDST (noun)
  The noun MIDST has 1 sense:

1. the location of something surrounded by other things

  Familiarity information: MIDST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The location of something surrounded by other things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

midst; thick

Context example:

in the midst of the crowd

Hypernyms ("midst" is a kind of...):

inside; interior (the region that is inside of something)

 Context examples 

In the midst of my pain of heart and frantic effort of principle, I abhorred myself.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was confirmed in this by sight of a ship lying at anchor in the midst of the shining sea.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

But the thought of the men in the midst of it steadied me, and in my quest for them I forgot myself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The child's situation put the visit entirely aside; but she could not hear of her escape with indifference, even in the midst of the serious anxiety which they afterwards felt on his account.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

To keep one's feet in the midst of the hostile mass meant life, and this he learnt well.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In the midst of these remarks, Mrs. Markleham cried: “Where's Annie?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Never, even in the midst of our despair about poor Lucy, had he looked more stern.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When Cassini arrived at the Saturnian system in 2004, the southern hemisphere was enjoying summertime, while the northern was in the midst of winter.

(Saturn's Famous Hexagon May Tower Above the Clouds, NASA)

“Well,” said the huntsman, “this is wonderful; this happens just as the old woman said”; then he shot into the midst of them so that their feathers flew all about.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)