From Middle English among, amang, amonge, amange, from Old English amang, onġemang, equivalent to a- + mong.

• IPA: /əˈmʌŋ/, /əˈmɒŋ/

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, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC ↗, 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 […]

• amongst (variant of among, slightly dated)
• amidst
• amid

• French: parmi
• German: unter, zwischen
• Italian: tra, fra, in mezzo a
• Portuguese: entre
• Russian: среди́
• Spanish: entre

• German: untereinander