Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural A surrounding area, especially of a city.
- noun plural Surroundings; environment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Places lying circumjacent; surrounding parts or localities: as, the environs of a city or town.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
surroundings ; theenvironment . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
environ .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the area in which something exists or lives
- noun an outer adjacent area of any place
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The goal of the environs is to force people to use fewer fossil fuels.
Harvard: Erm, that WH policy means tripling the price of gas. | RedState 2010
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A couple of things that struck me about the wines that I have been tasting in Niagara et environs, is the strength of the 2006 reds, and the improving quality of Viognier.
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William Kent Kreuger's series set in rural Minnesota and surrounding environs is as gripping as any big city tale.
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Additionally, Tanzania has advantageous lake and basin environs shaped by Lake Nyanza on its northern border, Lake Tanganyika on its western border, and Lake Nyasa (Malawi) at its southwestern end, as well as many additional lesser lakes interspersed throughout.
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As earlier Azania Bantu populations had, those early Northeast-Coastal Bantu-speaking communities settled into hinter-coastal settings that were characterized by well-watered, temperate niches that were similar to the Southern-Nyanza-Basin environs their ancestors had departed.
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The resolution of the sattelite images for Beersheba, Israel and its environs is not high enough.
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However my favourite account of Endsleigh and its environs comes from the late great author Penelope Fitzgerald who loved the area around us here.
Endsleigh 2006
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However my favourite account of Endsleigh and its environs comes from the late great author Penelope Fitzgerald who loved the area around us here.
Endsleigh 2006
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They went there to *plead* with the Japanese to buy shoddily built American cars that were too large to drive in Japanese environs, too expensive to afford and built with their steering wheels on the wrong side for Japanese drivers.
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Friends know that getting me to agree to go anywhere beyond the city environs is no mean feat (traveling by plane to the provinces or abroad is a different matter).
notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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