among

English

Alternative forms

• amonge (archaic)
• amoung (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old English onġemang.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /əˈmʌŋ/, SAMPA: /@"mVN/

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• Hyphenation: a‧mong

Preposition

among

1. 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?

2. Denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group.

   He is among the few who completely understand the subject.

3. Denotes a sharing of a common feature in a group.

   Lactose intolerance is common among people of Asian heritage.

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), 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 […]

Usage notes

• For the comparison of among with between, see the usage notes in between.

Synonyms

• amongst (variant of among)
• amidst
• amid

Translations

mingling or intermixing

Armenian: մեջ (hy) (meǰ), միջև (hy) (miǰev) Bulgarian: сред (bg), между (bg) Czech: mezi (cs) Danish: mellem (da), blandt (da) Dutch: tussen (nl), onder (nl) Esperanto: inter (eo) Finnish: joukossa, keskellä, seassa French: parmi (fr) German: unter (de), zwischen (de) Greek: ανάμεσα (el) (anámesa) Haitian Creole: pami Hungarian: között (hu) Ido: inter Indonesian: antara, di antara, dalam, di tengah Italian: tra (it), sotto (it)

Japanese: 中 (なか, naka), 間 (あいだ, aida) Kurdish: نێوان Low German: mang (nds) Navajo: atah Norwegian: blant (no), mellom (no) Old English: ġemang (ang) Polish: wśród (pl) Portuguese: entre (pt) Romanian: între (ro), printre (ro) Russian: среди (sredí + genitive case) Scots: amang Slovene: med (sl) Spanish: entre (es) Swedish: bland (sv)

See also

• between

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: seen · better · name · #209: among · done · days · something

Anagrams

• mango, Mango