midstとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English in middes (“in the middle”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /mɪdst/, [mɪdst], [mɪtst]
• 韻: -ɪdst

名詞

midst (複数形 midsts)

1. (often literary) A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Affair at the Novelty Theatre‎^[1]:

     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, Pitts, Mary Ellen, 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, Schlueter, Nathan W., quoting Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream, 1963, speech, quoted in One Dream Or Two?: Justice in America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr., page 89:

     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."

同意語

• centre, center, middle

前置詞

midst

1. (rare) Among, in the middle of; amid.
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, Lvcrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], OCLC 236076664:

     She puts the period often from his place ; And 'midst the sentence so her accent breaks

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:midst.

同意語

• amid
• amidst

派生語

• in the midst of
• in one's midst