SURROUNDINGS
Dictionary entry overview: What does surroundings mean?
• SURROUNDINGS (noun)
The noun SURROUNDINGS has 2 senses:
1. the environmental condition
2. the area in which something exists or lives
Familiarity information: SURROUNDINGS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SURROUNDINGS (noun)
Meaning:
The environmental condition
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
milieu; surroundings
Hypernyms ("surroundings" is a kind of...):
environment (the totality of surrounding conditions)
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 ("surroundings" 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 "surroundings"):
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)
