surroundings en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
- /səˈɹaʊndɪŋz/
Meanings
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(form-of, plural) plural of surrounding
form of surrounding
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(plural, plural-only) The area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity; the environment or ambiance.
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.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:The e-boutique has to engage them in an elevated way and they have to be stimulated by the virtual surroundings.
2010, Uché Okonkwo, Luxury Online: Styles, Systems, Strategies, page 226:Although operational environments profoundly differ, both kinds of autonomous vehicles, groundcraft and aircraft, will still rely on conceptually the same sorts of sensors — cameras, radar and lidar — to perceive surroundings in real time.
2020 January 1, Adam Hadhazy, “Achieving autonomy”, in Aerospace America, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2025:We like the way they live, in their penthouselike surroundings filled with fake ferns and goldfish.
1988 June, Spy, page 27:
- (plural, plural-only) All parts of the universe that are not within the thermodynamic system of interest.
Synonyms
Translations (54)
tr etraf (area surrounding someone or something) · ca ambient (area surrounding someone or something) · nb omgivelser (area surrounding someone or something) · tr civar (area surrounding someone or something) · fi ympäristö (parts not within the system) · es entorno (area surrounding someone or something) · bg око́лности (area surrounding someone or something) · ota چوره (area surrounding someone or something) · gl contorna (area surrounding someone or something) · ru око́лица (area surrounding someone or something) · pt arredores (area surrounding someone or something) · ga timpeallacht (area surrounding someone or something) · ga urthimpeall (area surrounding someone or something) · egy h-A-w-Y1:Z2 (area surrounding someone or something) · cmn 周圍 /周围 (area surrounding someone or something) · ar مُحِيط (area surrounding someone or something) · he סְבִיבָה (area surrounding someone or something) · tr havali (area surrounding someone or something) · nl omgeving (area surrounding someone or something) · sa अम्बर (area surrounding someone or something) · eo ĉirkaŭo (area surrounding someone or something) · ca entorn (area surrounding someone or something) · uk око́лиця (area surrounding someone or something) · yue 周圍 /周围 (area surrounding someone or something) · pl okolica (area surrounding someone or something) · pt redondezas (area surrounding someone or something) · yi סבֿיבֿה (area surrounding someone or something) · ka არემარე (area surrounding someone or something) · be навако́лле (area surrounding someone or something) · sip འཁོར་ཡུག (area surrounding someone or something) · ru окре́стности (area surrounding someone or something) · ja 周囲 (area surrounding someone or something) · tr çevre (area surrounding someone or something) · ka გარემო (area surrounding someone or something) · de Umgebung (area surrounding someone or something) · ru окру́га (area surrounding someone or something) · it ambiente (area surrounding someone or something) · ka გარემომცველი არე (area surrounding someone or something) · eo ĉirkaŭaĵo (area surrounding someone or something) · pdt Omjäajent (area surrounding someone or something) · ro jur (area surrounding someone or something) · ka შემოგარენი (area surrounding someone or something) · fi ympäristö (area surrounding someone or something) · cs okolí (area surrounding someone or something) · pt ambiente (area surrounding someone or something) · ka მიდამო (area surrounding someone or something) · tr yöre (area surrounding someone or something) · la circumposita (area surrounding someone or something) · fr voisinage (area surrounding someone or something) · sk okolie (area surrounding someone or something) · cs okolí (parts not within the system) · ko 주위 (area surrounding someone or something) · da omgivelse (area surrounding someone or something) · fr environnement (area surrounding someone or something)