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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
among
preposition
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chief among
▪ She had many reasons for taking the money, but chief among them was revenge.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
among other things
▪ Among other things, Bradley talked about his days as a senator.
▪ At the meeting they discussed, among other things, recent events in Eastern Europe.
▪ Businesses were allowed to pay in equipment and acquired, among other things, a few computers.
▪ It results from, among other things, voluntary acts of charity, which government more and more supersedes.
▪ It was called oratory, and dealt with, among other things, logic and the art of persuasion....
▪ Many nurses were aware of this but feared, among other things, a possible ischaemic element.
▪ New scientific techniques introduced among other things reliable means of dating the prehistoric past.
▪ Or pressure groups like the Baby Milk Action Group which, among other things, campaigns against women being pressurised into bottle-feeding.
▪ Sniping by the president's men has, among other things, forced the foreign minister to resign.
▪ They will have to enter between three huge cans to see, among other things, more than 150 different tins.
first among equals
▪ But Aggie was first among equals.
▪ Cash is the first among equals.
▪ The prime minister was primus inter pares in the cabinet-the first among equals.
number among sth/be numbered among sth
pick your way through/across/among etc sth
▪ Hardly glancing at Berowne's body Dalgliesh picked his way across the carpet to Harry Mack and squatted beside him.
▪ I picked my way through the noisy tables and went into the Gents.
▪ Publishers and booksellers will have to pick their way through a landscape made strange and problematic by change.
▪ So four of us took our stirrup pumps and torches and picked our way through what was a minefield.
▪ The Arvins came picking their way through rubble, nervous as rats, poking people aside with the barrels of their M-16s.
▪ There was just one lock, and I picked my way through it with ease.
▪ They picked their way through broken pieces of furniture, their feet crunching across splintered glass and wood.
▪ We pick our way across the cement floor and into the battered portacabin.
put/set the cat among the pigeons
the prince of sth/a prince among sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Among the collection of photographs are two taken in Hamburg in 1911.
▪ Forbes dramatically increased his support among Republican voters statewide.
▪ I saw him standing among a group of students.
▪ The house was hidden among the trees.
▪ The letter is somewhere among these papers on her desk.
▪ The prime minister was among the 300 people who attended the funeral.
▪ There is widespread concern among scientists about the safety of storing nuclear waste underground.
▪ There were about twenty spectators, among whom were Bill, Maria and myself.
▪ We helped Mom search for her wedding ring among the rocks below the boardwalk.
▪ Yeltsin was among the first world leaders to arrive in Paris for the summit.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Among

Among \A*mong"\, Amongst \A*mongst"\, prep. [OE. amongist, amonges, amonge, among, AS. onmang, ongemang, gemang, in a crowd or mixture. For the ending -st see Amidst. See Mingle.]

  1. Mixed or mingled; surrounded by.

    They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees.
    --Milton.

  2. Conjoined, or associated with, or making part of the number of; in the number or class of.

    Blessed art thou among women.
    --Luke i. 28.

  3. Expressing a relation of dispersion, distribution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action.

    What news among the merchants?
    --Shak.

    Human sacrifices were practiced among them.
    --Hume.

    Divide that gold amongst you.
    --Marlowe.

    Whether they quarreled among themselves, or with their neighbors.
    --Addison.

    Syn: Amidst; between. See Amidst, Between.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
among

early 12c., from Old English onmang, from phrase on gemang "in a crowd," from gemengan "to mingle" (see mingle). Collective prefix ge- dropped 12c. leaving onmong, amang, among. Compare Old Saxon angimang "among, amid;" Old Frisian mong "among."

Wiktionary
among

prep. 1 Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. (See Usage Note at amidst) 2 Denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group.

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "among".

Weavers travelled from town to village to city, appearing at festivals or gatherings, teaching the common folk to recognise the Aberrant in their midst, urging them to give up the creatures that hid among them.

The Empress might have enough support among the nobles to keep a precarious hold on her throne, but she had made no overtures to the common folk, and they were solidly opposed to the idea of an Aberrant ruler.

Among other results was the ease with which German Protestantism became the instrument of royal and princely absolutism from the sixteenth century until the kings and princes were overthrown in 1918.

Through it all, Abies, 41, has gone from being a religious and racial extremist to a folk hero among his neighbors.

He did not need to glance at the accelerometer mounted among the other tell-tale instruments on the bulkhead of his cabin.

She ached to be outside in the fresh air, to be dressed in her oldest jeans, turning over spades full of soft loamy earth, feeling the excitement and pleasure of siting the bulbs, of allowing her imagination to paint for her the colourful picture they would make in the spring, in their uniform beds set among lawn pathways and bordered by a long deep border of old-fashioned perennial plants.

Thus, all the while that Galileo was inventing modern physics, teaching mathematics to princes, discovering new phenomena among the planets, publishing science books for the general public, and defending his bold theories against establishment enemies, he was also buying thread for Suor Luisa, choosing organ music for Mother Achillea, shipping gifts of food, and supplying his homegrown citrus fruits, wine, and rosemary leaves for the kitchen and apothecary at San Matteo.

For some reason, acromegaly seems to have a high incidence among Swedes.

The direct actionists by their inflammatory speeches and writings are especially successful in gaining recruits from among the more disorderly elements of society, whereas the political actionists appeal rather to those persons who are opposed to the destruction of life and property.

I became acutely aware that I was one man among a multitude and that discretion was a thing of greater value than curiosity.

In one instance a young man had slept so close to his camp-fire that the hair from one side of his head was singed completely away, giving him an appearance so strange that he was promptly given a nickname of twenty or more consonant sounds, which, translated, meant: The Man Who is Half Old Because He Is Half Bald--an appellation acutely resented by the young person concerned, who was rather vain and something of a favourite among the girls.

Beethoven adagios, of which we find the most beautiful specimens naturally among the orchestral pieces and in the chamber music, where he could depend upon the long phrases and sustained tones of the violins.

Dooly, addled and waving one hand while pointing with the other, seemed to see something amazing down among the leaves and branches.

We failed to appreciate adequately what her presence among us meant and it is only now, when she has gone for ever, that we come to realize the irreparable character of our loss.

Having seen Jacopo fairly out of the harbor, Dantes proceeded to make his final adieus on board The Young Amelia, distributing so liberal a gratuity among her crew as to secure for him the good wishes of all, and expressions of cordial interest in all that concerned him.