Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb & preposition Between.
- idiom (betwixt and between) In an intermediate position; neither wholly one thing nor another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Between; in the space that separates; in intermediate relation to as regards time, quantity, or degree; passing between; from one to another, etc., in most of the uses of between (which see).
- Synonyms See comparison under among.
- Between, in either space or time.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- preposition In the space which separates; between.
- preposition From one to another of; mutually affecting.
- preposition [Colloq.] in a midway position; so-so; neither one thing nor the other.
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- preposition
Between , specifically between two objects.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in the interval
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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However, I hope to catch up on a few posts today and sometime next week (in betwixt mixing down the next podcast and all the crap that's been keeping me busy lately).
z0mbieastronaut: .Ha HA!! I am here!Sorry, fellow a z0mbieastronaut 2009
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However, I hope to catch up on a few posts today and sometime next week (in betwixt mixing down the next podcast and all the crap that's been keeping me busy lately).
April 28th, 2009 z0mbieastronaut 2009
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So thus it was, in the dusk of the evening, that we came into Tonbridge Town, with never a word betwixt us -- myself silent from sheer amazement, the Captain for reasons of his own, Sir Harry Raikes for very obvious causes, but mostly
The Honourable Mr. Tawnish Jeffery Farnol 1915
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But now cometh my dear lady to stand beside me, to steal her hand into mine, and never a word betwixt us for a while.
Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Marvellous quick was he and nimble save for his tongue, he being less given to talk even than I, so that I have known us march by the hour together and never a word betwixt us.
Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915
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And here she turned her back fairly upon us and crossed to the window, while we looked at one another but with never a word betwixt us; wherefore she presently went on again.
The Honourable Mr. Tawnish Jeffery Farnol 1915
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After this we went on side by side and never a word betwixt us until we had reached that pleasant champain country where flowed the river shaded by goodly trees, in whose branches fluttered birds of a plumage marvellously coloured and diverse, and beneath which bloomed flowers as vivid; insomuch that my lady brake forth ever and anon into little soft cries of delighted wonder.
Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Thus rode they, and with never a word betwixt them, deep and deeper into the wild until the moon was down and darkness shut them in; wherefore
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915
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At last I turned my haggard, burning eyes upon her murderers -- four of them there were and all staring into those cruel, black waters below and not a word betwixt them.
Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Whereupon, Bentley yielding to my humour, we rode on with never a word betwixt us.
The Honourable Mr. Tawnish Jeffery Farnol 1915
mike commented on the word betwixt
I love this word. It's so very literary and obscure. And it's silly.
December 28, 2006
valse commented on the word betwixt
I agree thoroughly.
January 12, 2007
slumry commented on the word betwixt
betwixt and between
June 21, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word betwixt
This is the same sort of word as amongst and amidst.
October 11, 2007
whichbe commented on the word betwixt
There's nothin' two sticks betwixt can't fix.
September 30, 2008