different between nearest vs midmost

English

Etymology

near +? -est.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n????st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n???st/
• Hyphenation: near?est

Adjective

nearest

1. Closest; superlative form of near: most near.

   Where is the nearest bus stop?

   I calculated the cost to the nearest 50 dollars.

Preposition

nearest

1. Closest to.

   Mercury is the planet nearest the Sun.

   • 1843, Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold-Bug:

     Fastening one end of this at that point of the trunk of the tree which was nearest the peg, he unrolled it till it reached the peg and thence further unrolled it, in the direction already established by the two points of the tree and the peg, for the distance of fifty feet […]

Anagrams

• Earnest, Eastern, Saetern, Tareens, earnest, eastern, estrane, renates, sterane

English

Etymology

From Old English medemest, superlative of medeme (“middling”), from Proto-Germanic *medumô; the word may be analysed as mid +? -most.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?dm??st/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?dmo?st/
• Hyphenation: mid?most

Adjective

midmost (not comparable)

1. In the exact middle, or nearest to the exact middle; middlemost
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:

     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.

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