# amongst

Pronunciation: say "uh-MUNGST" /əˈmʌŋst/

## Preposition

1. Used to show that someone or something is mixed in with a group of separate people or things.
   - Simple: In the middle of a group of people or things, and mixed in with them.
   - _She felt most at home amongst the musicians backstage, even though she couldn't play a note._
   - _Wild garlic grows amongst the bluebells along the shady edge of the wood._

## Origin

From amongs with an excrescent -t added, where amongs is among plus the genitive ending -s; by surface analysis it is among + -st. The root among comes from Old English ongemang, from on ("in") + gemang ("assemblage, mingling").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/amongst (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).