surroundings

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

surroundings
    n 1: the environmental condition [syn: {milieu}, {surroundings}]
    2: the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--
       the flat agricultural surround" [syn: {environment},
       {environs}, {surroundings}, {surround}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

30 Moby Thesaurus words for "surroundings":
      alentours, ambience, ambit, borderlands, circle, circuit,
      circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, compass, context,
      entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs,
      gestalt, habitat, milieu, neighborhood, outposts, outskirts,
      perimeter, periphery, precincts, purlieus, situation, suburbs,
      total environment, vicinage, vicinity

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