Among vs Alone - What's the difference?
among | alone |
Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. (See Usage Note at amidst)
Denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Denotes a sharing of a common feature in a group.
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By oneself, solitary.
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*(Bible), (w) ii. 18
*:It is not good that the man should be alone .
*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
*:Alone on a wide, wide sea.
Apart from, or exclusive of, others.
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*(Richard Bentley) (1662-1742)
*:God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
Considered separately.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone , without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
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, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)
Without equal.
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, volume=189, issue=11, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (lb) Unique; rare; matchless.
:(Shakespeare)
By one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.
Without outside help.
Exclusively.
As a preposition among
is denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects (see usage note at amidst).As an adjective alone is
by oneself, solitary.As an adverb alone is
by one's self; apart from, or exclusive of, others; solo.among
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Alternative forms
* amonge (archaic) * amoung (obsolete)Preposition
(English prepositions)Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.}}
- Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us […]
Usage notes
* For the comparison of among'' with ''between'', see the usage notes in ''between . * Due to a belief that "amongst" is an archaic/Commonwealth variant, many Americans use "among" exclusively.Synonyms
* amongst (variant of among) * amidst * amidSee also
* betweenStatistics
*Anagrams
*alone
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(wikipedia alone)Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=In America alone , people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
Ian Traynor
Rise of Europe's new autocrats, passage=Hungary's leader is not alone in eastern and southern Europe, where democratically elected populist strongmen increasingly dominate, deploying the power of the state and a battery of instruments of intimidation to crush dissent, demonise opposition, tame the media and tailor the system to their ends.}}