ENVIRONS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does environs mean? 

• ENVIRONS (noun)
  The noun ENVIRONS has 2 senses:

1. the area in which something exists or lives
2. an outer adjacent area of any place

  Familiarity information: ENVIRONS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENVIRONS (noun)

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 ("environs" 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 "environs"):

ambiance; ambience (the atmosphere of an environment)

medium (the surrounding environment)

scene; setting (the context and environment in which something is set)

element (the most favorable environment for a plant or animal)

habitat; home ground (the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs)

melting pot (an environment in which many ideas and races are socially assimilated)

parts (the local environment)

Meaning:

An outer adjacent area of any place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

purlieu; environs

Hypernyms ("environs" is a kind of...):

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)