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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the area in which something exists or lives;
- Example: "the country--the flat agricultural surround"
[syn: environment, environs, surroundings, surround]

2. an outer adjacent area of any place;
[syn: environs, purlieu]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Environs \En*vi"rons\ (?; 277), n. pl. [F.]
   The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in
   its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or
   town. --Chesterfield.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

environs
    n 1: the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--
         the flat agricultural surround" [syn: environment,
         environs, surroundings, surround]
    2: an outer adjacent area of any place [syn: environs,
       purlieu]