Définition "among" dans le dictionnaire Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus

among
The form amongst is also used, but is more literary.

1 prep Someone or something that is situated or moving among a group of things or people is surrounded by them.
They walked among the crowds in Red Square.

2 prep If you are among people of a particular kind, you are with them and having contact with them.
Things weren't so bad, after all. I was among friends again...

3 prep If someone or something is among a group, they are a member of that group and share its characteristics.
A fifteen year old girl was among the injured...

4 prep If you want to focus on something that is happening within a particular group of people, you can say that it is happening among that group.
Unemployment is quite high, especially among young people.

5 prep If something happens among a group of people, it happens within the whole of that group or between the members of that group.
I am sick of all the quarrelling among politicians who should be concentrating on vital issues.

6 prep If something such as a feeling, opinion, or situation exists among a group of people, most of them have it or experience it.
The biggest fear among parents thinking of using the Internet is that their children will be exposed to pornography...

7 prep If something applies to a particular person or thing among others, it also applies to other people or things.
...a news conference attended among others by our foreign affairs correspondent...

8 prep If something is shared among a number of people, some of it is given to all of them.
Most of the furniture was left to the neighbours or distributed among friends...

9 prep If people talk, fight, or agree among themselves, they do it together, without involving anyone else.
European farm ministers disagree among themselves...