surroundings
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Pronunciation
Noun
surroundings
Noun
surroundings pl (plural only)
- The area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity; the environment or ambiance.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- His tall, gaunt, stringy figure is insensible to fatigue, and his dry, half-sarcastic, and often wholly unsympathetic manner is uninfluenced by any change in his surroundings.
- 1988 June, Spy, page 27:
- We like the way they live, in their penthouselike surroundings filled with fake ferns and goldfish.
- 2010, Uché Okonkwo, Luxury Online: Styles, Systems, Strategies, page 226:
- The e-boutique has to engage them in an elevated way and they have to be stimulated by the virtual surroundings.
- (physics) All parts of the universe that are not within the thermodynamic system of interest.
Translations
area surrounding someone or something
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