The meaning of AMID is in or into the middle of : surrounded by : among. How to use amid in a sentence.
If something happens amid noises or events of some kind, it happens while the other things are happening. A senior leader cancelled a trip to Britain yesterday amid growing signs of a possible political crisis. Children were changing classrooms amid laughter and shouts.
On the floor, amid mounds of books, were two small envelopes. The new perfume was launched amidst a fanfare of publicity. Her office was an oasis of peace and sanity amid the surrounding chaos. The town sits amid gentle hills and dense forest. The actors made their bows amid great applause.
Definition of amid preposition in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
- during, among, at a time of, in an atmosphere of He cancelled a foreign trip amid growing concerns of a domestic crisis.
a mid /əˈmɪd/ also a midst /əˈmɪdst/ prep. among: Amid all the bushes stood a lonely tree. a mid (ə mid′), prep. among: to stand weeping amid the ruins. in or throughout the course of. Also, amidst. Middle English amidde, Old English amiddan, for on middan in (the) middle. See a - 1, mid1 bef. 1000. 1. See among.
The resulting social divisions can seem so "real" and "natural" to those living amid them that there is a strong tendency to believe that they are timeless biological or scientific facts, rather than social facts that have been assembled and built up through human effort.
The words amid and amidst are often used interchangeably, both meaning 'in the middle of' or 'surrounded by'. However, amid is the more commonly used variant, especially in American English, while amidst tends to have a more literary or formal air, and is more frequently seen in British English.