midstream
/mˈɪdstɹˌim/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.47 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
adv
Example Sentences
- "moored midstream"
- "some of them got caught midstream by the tide"
- "the most difficult thing in a fast game of rugby is to change course midstream"
- "But it was in the middle of this process that he had met Ms. Lukoji, and he opted not to change his application midstream to take his marriage into account."
- "Unlike film, theater and TV, the book world didn’t get interrupted midstream."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *me Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-? Proto-Indo-European *-dʰe Proto-Indo-European *médʰi Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos Proto-Germanic *midjaz Proto-West Germanic *midi Old English midd Middle English mid English mid English mid- Proto-Indo-European *ser-? Proto-Indo-European *srew-der. Proto-Indo-European *srow-mo-s Proto-Germanic *straumaz Proto-West Germanic *straum Old English strēam Middle English strem English stream English midstream From mid- + stream.