amid

Meanings

1. 1
   prep

   In the middle of; in the center of; surrounded by.

   At last the first glimpse from a bridge of an open-top red bus, and a noticeable darkening of the atmosphere from the smoke of London: then the increasingly dingy stations with double-barrel names, set amid what has always been to me the outstanding feature of the "Premier Line" approach to London—the positively marvellous display of crazy chimney-pots on the grey inner suburban houses. As many as twenty, all of varying style, standing together like ranks of jagged teeth, and providing a Dickensian back-cloth which no other route can boast.

2. 2
   noun

   Archaic form of amide.

Etymology

From Middle English amidde, Old English on middan, a- + mid.