among
Multiple Entries:
among prince
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
among /əˈmʌŋ/ (chiefly Brit. also amongst)
▶preposition
- 1 surrounded by; in the middle of.
- 2 being a member or members of (a larger set).
- 3 occurring in or practised by (some members of a group).
- 4 indicating a division, choice, or differentiation involving three or more participants.
– origin OE ongemang (from on ‘in’ + gemang ‘assemblage, mingling’).
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prince/prɪns/
▶noun
- 1 a son, grandson, or other close male relative of a monarch.
■ a male monarch of a small state, actually or nominally subject to a king or emperor.
■ (in some European countries) a nobleman, usually ranking next below a duke.
- 2 (prince of or among) a man or thing pre-eminent in a particular sphere or group.
– phrases
prince of the blood a prince by right of royal descent.
prince of the blood a prince by right of royal descent.
– derivatives
princedom noun,
princelike adjective.
princedom noun,
princelike adjective.
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. princeps, princip- ‘first, chief, sovereign’, from primus ‘first’ + capere ‘take’.
'among' also found in these Oxford entries:
adda
- Allah
- angel
- assort
- Babylon
- backmarker
- balander
- ballot
- barrelfish
- big
- butty
- capoeira
- carousel
- cat
- category
- chatline
- cheat grass
- cheerly
- chuddies
- churinga
- cock
- come
- community chest
- comrade
- Congregationalism
- converse
- cornrows
- coup
- credibility
- cult
- cumulative voting
- dhamma
- dirty word
- dividend
- dozen
- duchess
- dutch
- ecumenical
- endemic
- enrol
- entertain
- entrails
- equipartition
- erysipeloid
- farang
- Fenian
- fiery cross
- folk memory
- gavelkind

