The tower stood amid the ruins.
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Amid
//əˈmɪd//
Synonyms for "amid" (13 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Strong matches (4)
Related words (6)
Preposition(1 words)
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Translations
40 translations across 21 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- بين prep (surrounded by)
- بَيْن prep (surrounded by)
Armenian
1 entries- մեջ prep (surrounded by)
Bengali
1 entries- মধ্যে prep (surrounded by)
Bulgarian
2 entries- между prep (surrounded by)
- сред prep (surrounded by)
Dutch
1 entries- te midden van prep (surrounded by)
Finnish
2 entries- keskellä prep (surrounded by)
- vallitessa prep (surrounded by)
French
4 entries- au milieu de prep (surrounded by)
- entouré de prep (surrounded by)
- entre prep (surrounded by)
- parmi prep (surrounded by)
German
1 entries- inmitten prep (surrounded by)
Hebrew
3 entries- בין prep (surrounded by)
- בקרב prep (surrounded by)
- בתוך prep (surrounded by)
Irish
2 entries- i lár prep (surrounded by)
- i measc prep (surrounded by)
Italian
3 entries- fra prep (surrounded by)
- in mezzo a prep (surrounded by)
- tra prep (surrounded by)
Limburgish
1 entries- emid prep (surrounded by)
Polish
2 entries- pośród prep (surrounded by)
- wśród prep (surrounded by)
Portuguese
1 entries- em meio a prep (surrounded by)
Russian
2 entries- ме́жду prep (surrounded by)
- среди́ prep (surrounded by)
Slovak
2 entries- medzi prep (surrounded by)
- uprostred prep (surrounded by)
Slovene
1 entries- srédi prep (surrounded by)
Spanish
4 entries- en medio de prep (surrounded by)
- entre prep (surrounded by)
- envuelto prep (surrounded by)
- rodeado por prep (surrounded by)
Turkish
1 entries- arasında; ortasında prep (surrounded by)
Ukrainian
3 entries- мі́ж prep (surrounded by)
- по́між prep (surrounded by)
- се́ред prep (surrounded by)
Welsh
1 entries- ynghanol prep (surrounded by)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
He is cool amid confusion.
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They are amid the city noises.
Source: tatoeba (307167)
She was standing amid the ruins of the castle.
Source: tatoeba (315068)
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