ENVIRONMENT
Dictionary entry overview: What does environment mean?
• ENVIRONMENT (noun)
The noun ENVIRONMENT has 2 senses:
1. the totality of surrounding conditions
2. the area in which something exists or lives
Familiarity information: ENVIRONMENT used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ENVIRONMENT (noun)
Meaning:
The totality of surrounding conditions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room
Hypernyms ("environment" is a kind of...):
situation; state of affairs (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "environment"):
area; arena; domain; field; orbit; sphere (a particular environment or walk of life)
milieu; surroundings (the environmental condition)
home (an environment offering affection and security)
background; scope; setting (the state of the environment in which a situation exists)
ecology (the environment as it relates to living organisms)
circumstance; context (the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event)
street (the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction)
Meaning:
The area in which something exists or lives
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
environs; surround; environment; surroundings
Context example:
the country--the flat agricultural surround
Hypernyms ("environment" is a kind of...):
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "environment"):
ambiance; ambience (the atmosphere of an environment)
parts (the local environment)
melting pot (an environment in which many ideas and races are socially assimilated)
habitat; home ground (the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs)
element (the most favorable environment for a plant or animal)
scene; setting (the context and environment in which something is set)
medium (the surrounding environment)
