among
/əˈmʌŋ/ preposition A2- Of a person or thing: in the midst of and surrounded by (other people or things). · to put the cat among the pigeons
- Associated with or living alongside (other people or things). · How can you speak with authority about their customs when you have never lived among them?
- Belonging to (a group comprising similar people or things). · He is among the few who completely understand the subject.
- Distinct in some way from (other members of a group); specifically, superior or pre-eminent compared to (other members of a group).
- Originally, in the course of; during; now, in the circumstances or context of.
- Distributed or divided between (members of a group).
- Done jointly by (two or more people).
- In the general custom or opinion of (members of a group).
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Wickham’s being among them.
Then the Queen hurriedly gave her people the order to start, for she feared if the mice stayed among the poppies too long they also would fall asleep.
Failing to obtain food among the Doves, he returned to the Jackdaws.
Around the table reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel the trammels of etiquette.
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