midmostとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪdməʊst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪdmoʊst/
• ハイフネーション: mid‧most

形容詞

midmost (not comparable)

1. In the exact middle, or nearest to the exact middle; middlemost
   • 1802, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Henry Boyd, transl., The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri: Consisting of the Inferno—Purgatorio—and Paradiso. Translated into English Verse, […] In Three Volumes, volume I (Inferno), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Strahan, […]; for T[homas] Cadell, Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […], OCLC 903109919, stanza I, page 93:

     When life had labour'd up her midmoſt ſtage, / And, weary with her mortal pilgrimage, / Stood in ſuſpenſe upon the point of Prime; [...]

   • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 305520:

     A wide half-circle of foam and glinting lights and shining shoulders of green water, the great weir closed the backwater from bank to bank, troubled all the quiet surface with twirling eddies and floating foam-streaks, and deadened all other sounds with its solemn and soothing rumble. In midmost of the stream, embraced in the weir's shimmering arm-spread, a small island lay anchored, fringed close with willow and silver birch and alder.