1
[ pronoun ] preposition, surrounded by

Synonyms

amongst among

2
[ adverb ] in the interval

Synonyms

betwixt

Examples

"dancing all the dances with little rest between"

Used in print

(Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)

Out of the church and into his big car , it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college , his expansiveness , the quaint little pine board tourist_courts , cabins really , with a cute naked light_bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight , like the one on the corner where you used_to play when you were a kid , where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs , watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ) , a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls , an insect Highway_Patrol with feelers waving .

3
[ adverb ] in between

Synonyms

'tween

Examples

"two houses with a tree between"

Used in print

(Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)

But the fences were still in_place fifty odd years ago , and when we stood on the gate to look over , the sidewalk under our eyes was not cement but two rows of paving_stones with grass between and on both sides .

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