noun
Meaning 1
plural of surrounding
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
surroundings
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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noun
Meaning 2
The area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity; the environment or ambiance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
All parts of the universe that are not within the thermodynamic system of interest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
the area in which something exists or lives
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the country--the flat agricultural surround
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: environment, environs, surround
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
Narrower terms: ambiance, ambience, medium, setting, scene, element, habitat, home ground, melting pot, parts
noun
Meaning 5
the environmental condition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: milieu
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: environment
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
54 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُحِيط (muḥīṭ) — area surrounding someone or something
- Belarusian: навако́лле (navakóllje) — area surrounding someone or something
- Bulgarian: око́лности (okólnosti) — area surrounding someone or something
- Catalan: entorn — area surrounding someone or something
- Catalan: ambient — area surrounding someone or something
- Chinese Cantonese: 周圍 /周围 (zau1 wai4) — area surrounding someone or something
- Chinese Mandarin: 周圍 /周围 (zhōuwéi) — area surrounding someone or something
- Czech: okolí — area surrounding someone or something
- Danish: omgivelse — area surrounding someone or something
- Dutch: omgeving — area surrounding someone or something
- Egyptian: h-A-w-Y1:Z2 (hꜣw) — area surrounding someone or something
- Esperanto: ĉirkaŭo — area surrounding someone or something
- Esperanto: ĉirkaŭaĵo — area surrounding someone or something
- Finnish: ympäristö — area surrounding someone or something
- French: environnement — area surrounding someone or something
- French: voisinage — area surrounding someone or something
- Galician: contorna — area surrounding someone or something
- Georgian: არემარე (aremare) — area surrounding someone or something
- Georgian: მიდამო (midamo) — area surrounding someone or something
- Georgian: გარემომცველი არე (garemomcveli are) — area surrounding someone or something
- Georgian: შემოგარენი (šemogareni) — area surrounding someone or something
- Georgian: გარემო (garemo) — area surrounding someone or something
- German: Umgebung — area surrounding someone or something
- Hebrew: סְבִיבָה (s'vivá) — area surrounding someone or something
- Irish: urthimpeall — area surrounding someone or something
- Irish: timpeallacht — area surrounding someone or something
- Italian: ambiente — area surrounding someone or something
- Japanese: 周囲 (shūi) — area surrounding someone or something
- Korean: 주위 (juwi) — area surrounding someone or something
- Latin: circumposita — area surrounding someone or something
- Norwegian Bokmål: omgivelser — area surrounding someone or something
- Plautdietsch: Omjäajent — area surrounding someone or something
- Polish: okolica — area surrounding someone or something
- Portuguese: ambiente — area surrounding someone or something
- Portuguese: redondezas — area surrounding someone or something
- Portuguese: arredores — area surrounding someone or something
- Romanian: jur — area surrounding someone or something
- Russian: окре́стности (okréstnosti) — area surrounding someone or something
- Russian: окру́га (okrúga) — area surrounding someone or something
- Russian: око́лица (okólica) — area surrounding someone or something
- Sanskrit: अम्बर (ambara) — area surrounding someone or something
- Sikkimese: འཁོར་ཡུག ('khor yug) — area surrounding someone or something
- Slovak: okolie — area surrounding someone or something
- Spanish: entorno — area surrounding someone or something
- Turkish: civar — area surrounding someone or something
- Turkish: havali — area surrounding someone or something
- Turkish: etraf — area surrounding someone or something
- Turkish: çevre — area surrounding someone or something
- Turkish: yöre — area surrounding someone or something
- Ottoman Turkish: چوره (çevre) — area surrounding someone or something
- Ukrainian: око́лиця (okólycja) — area surrounding someone or something
- Yiddish: סבֿיבֿה (svive) — area surrounding someone or something
- Czech: okolí — parts not within the system
- Finnish: ympäristö — parts not within the system
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