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Learners of English as a second language usually know the word among once they have reached the level A1 – Beginner. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning among meaning

What does among mean?

Definitions in simple English

among Preposition

— In or into. We say "between" 2 other things, but among 3 or more other things. She was among her friends.

— With a share for each. Divide the candy among yourselves.

— By all or with the whole.

among preposition

— Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. (See Usage Note at amidst.)

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

— belonging to a group

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Topics among topics

What do people use among to talk about?

States Location Here, there Beside

Between

• What words indicate that something is between two other things?
  between amid amidships amidst among amongst betwixt center central equidistant half-way mean medial median medium mid middle middlemost midst midway therein throughout within

Grammar Connected with, related Coordinate relations

Association

• What words indicate association?
  with among together with between...and be one with in common in union with union

Examples among examples

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Simple sentences

I noticed, among other things, that he was drunk.

Tom is ill at ease among strangers.

Those rules fostered discontent among students.

This mountain is among the highest in the world.

Tom has just been let go from his job. Because he had signed the employer's non-competition contract, he must now choose among relocation, a significant career change, unemployment or litigation.

The train derailed causing panic among the passengers, but no casualties were reported.

I work among friends.

We split up the loot among the three of us.

I found this letter among those books.

Are there any Russians among you?

Tom isn't highly regarded among his colleagues.

She is among my favorite authors.

My next door neighbor is a virtuoso whose skills with the piano have earned him a name among music experts.

You can number me among your friends.

You are now among the elite.

Divide the cake among you three.

We number him among our closest friends.

We have a traitor among us.

Many weeds were growing among the flowers.

As singers go, she is among the best in the country.

Devils are hiding among the rocks.

A squirrel hid among the branches.

Maori culture is now spreading more and more among us and their language has become an official language.

The Beatles are popular among young people.

A small stream ran down among the rocks.

We agreed among ourselves.

Bees are flying among the flowers.

The movie is popular among the youngsters.

He was among those chosen.

A girl approached the king from among the crowd.

We walked among the trees.

London is among the largest cities in the world.

Movie subtitles

Among your own allies.

This simply had no counterpart among the fractured and competing states and cities of 1 5th-century Europe.

The rest of you divide yourselves up among the three roads and hide somewhere along the way.

Among his peers, he was a champion.

Believing Ulysses to be dead, the suitors take possession of his house and demand that Penelope choose a new husband among them.

Penelope declares to wish to marry he among the suitors who is capable to string the bow of Ulysses.

Ulysses starts a massacre among the suitors.

I'm going to look among the relations of Lord Beltham.

Choose among us his successor.

Scapinelli was known among the students to be without scruples.

The news that the sharing out of the loot was going to take place in the empty house spread quickly among the gangsters.

The king discovered a conspiracy among his Scottish mercenary troops.

She hoped to replant in good soil the seed that had fallen among thorns. And she may well have succeeded had it not been for.

But isn't superstition still rampant among us?

I'm not a Muslim among Catholics or an Arab among French.

I'm a soldier among soldiers.

You can trust me. Among women, we can understand each other.

They're scattered, but still have influence at the court, among university students and bankers.

They've been among us for quite some time, and they're plotting something diabolical against humanity.

There's even a success story among those you know personally.

It means the Blessed must be among you, too.

Should there be on this earth among millions of beating hearts not to be found one that strives for you in love?

Among the vacationists was a Woman of the City.

No necessity to have quarrels among friends.

The security of the Jeju forum will be tight. There is an uproar of news circulating among the foreign media saying that John Mayer is finally going to reveal his true self.

Scapinelli was popular among students, because of his way of acting, without scruples.

You do not have a piece of bread among us?

Any luck? - We'll have to split this up among us.

Perhaps you'll go to the convalescent home. in Klosterberg among the villagers.

In September of 1914 I was listed among the dead.

I've got friends among the natives.

Gentlemen, I wish you to take advantage of my absence. By discussing among yourselves. This question of good and evil.

By attending his graduation exercises this afternoon. And distributing the prizes among his pupils.

I have been among you two days, and what you do with yourselves. still seems so very futile and empty.

But suppose you had been set down, for a few hours or a few days, among the inhabitants of the moon, and that was all the life you could have forever. you knew no one there, and no one dared to know you?

News and current affairs

For almost two generations, Abba Eban was Israel's voice - its messenger to the high and mighty among the nations as well as to the Jewish people all over the world.

The idea of normalizing relations with Israel has incited fierce hostility among some imams in the mosques as well as on the Internet.

To many, myself included, NATO's enlargement to take in, among others, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania -- which were once Soviet republics -- is an impossible dream come true.

Ten of 21 branches of Dutch agribusiness, including horticultural seeds, ornamentals, seed potatoes, and veal, are among the top contributors to the national economy and the country's trade balance.

Many structural improvement programs have been financed at the European level, but agricultural production and land use are not among them.

I trust that among the experts will be some who have pondered the underlying ethical question: how safe should we aim to be?

But British policy towards the EU has often led to worse rather than better relations among member states.

All these data are at an aggregate level and reflect average views among voters and investors.

NEW HAVEN - Few economists predicted the current economic crisis, and there is little agreement among them about its ultimate causes.

More generally, improving coordination among donors would help to maximize the impact of aid on the ground.

But, among states, even nuclear deterrence was more complex than it first looked, and that is doubly true of deterrence in the cyber domain.

It is likely, however, that major governments will soon discover that the insecurity created by non-state cyber actors will require closer cooperation among governments.

If the US really wants to undercut terrorism, it must recognize the interconnectedness of extremism, poverty, and environmental degradation, and it will need to understand the struggles for survival that are underway among the poor everywhere.

While the magnitudes involved are huge, they must be attained if an extended period of low growth, high unemployment, and declining living standards among the world's poorest is to be avoided.

And, while mistresses abound among the privileged classes, they do not strut publicly by their power-mates' sides.

Democratic societies depend not only on the foundational principle of free speech, but on the character of political thought and conversation among various constituencies.

The second is a set of understandings and commitments among the major advanced and developing countries to rebalance the global economy in order to restore aggregate demand and growth.

Terrorism must lose its legitimacy among those who have historically supported or tolerated it before it will lose its potency.

The team's members also knew that Sri Lanka's government had wide support among UN member states, and that the LTTE had none at all.