among
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EnglishEdit
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EtymologyEdit
From Middle English among, amang, amonge, amange, from Old English amang, onġemang, equivalent to a- + mong (“crowd; group; throng”). Compare dialectal German mang, Saterland Frisian monk, monken (“among”).
PronunciationEdit
PrepositionEdit
among
- Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. (See Usage Note at amidst.)
- How can you speak with authority about their customs when you have never lived among them?
- Denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group.
- 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.
- He is among the few who completely understand the subject.
- Denotes a sharing of a common feature in a group.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Luke 1:1:
- Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us […]
- Lactose intolerance is common among people of Asian heritage.
Usage notesEdit
- For the comparison of among with between, see the usage notes in between.
- Many Americans view "amongst" as an archaic/Commonwealth variant, and use "among" exclusively.
SynonymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
mingling or intermixing
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belonging to a group
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See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
CebuanoEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Hyphenation: a‧mong
VerbEdit
among
- To be made or become a collateral damage.
- To implicate; to connect or involve in an unfavorable or criminal way with something.
- To drag in.