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middlemost

[mid-l-mohst]
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adjective
  1. midmost.

Origin of middlemost

First recorded in 1275–1325, middlemost is from the Middle English word middelmast. See middle, -most
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Related Words for middlemost

intermediate, paramount, key, important, pivotal, fundamental, basic, significant, essential, halfway, intervening, medium, center, average, median, mean, inside, mainstream, mezzo, midpoint

Examples from the Web for middlemost

Historical Examples of middlemost

  • The Assemblies, courts and councils were held in the "middlemost" of the three houses.

    The Stronghold

    Miriam Haynie

  • The outmost Fringe vanish'd first, and the middlemost next, and the innermost last.

    Opticks

    Isaac Newton

  • Between these Houses there run five Streets, the middlemost of which fronts the Palace.

  • I looked, and upon a stone which formed the lintel of the middlemost door I read “T. H 1630.”

    Wild Wales

    George Borrow

  • The first and the last the shepherds sing, and the second or middlemost the women sing.

British Dictionary definitions for middlemost

middlemost

adjective
  1. another word for midmost
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Word Origin and History for middlemost
adj.

early 14c., "middle; the middle one of three," from middle + -most.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper