| Pronunciation: | | en'vIrunz
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| Matching Terms: | | environ, environment, environment variable, environmental, environmental archaeology, environmental circumscription, environmental condition, environmental output, environmental protection (epa), environmental protection agency, environmental quality objective, environmental quality standard, environmental science, environmental tobacco smoke, environmental variance, environmentalist, environmentally
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| | Definition: | | [n] the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround" |
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| | Synonyms: | | environment, surround, surroundings |
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| | See Also: | | ambiance, ambience, element, geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region, habitat, medium, melting pot, parts, scene, setting |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \En*vi"rons\ (?; 277), n. pl. [F.]
The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in
its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or
town. --Chesterfield.
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| | Related Terms: | | airspace, alentours, ambience, ambit, approach, approximation, area, belt, borderlands, boundary, bounds, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, closeness, compass, confines, context, continental shelf, convergence, corridor, country, department, district, division, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, foreground, fringes, gestalt, ground, habitat, heartland, hinterland, immediacy, immediate foreground, land, limits, locality, milieu, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, offshore rights, outposts, outskirts, part, parts, perimeter, periphery, place, precinct, precincts, premises, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, region, salient, section, situation, soil, space, suburbs, surroundings, terrain, territory, three-mile limit, total environment, twelve-mile limit, vicinage, vicinity, zone |
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