surroundings

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/səˈɹaʊndɪŋz/
• Hyphenation:sur‧round‧ings

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Noun

surroundings

1. pluralofsurrounding

Noun

surroundingspl(plural only)

1. Theareasurroundingsomeone or something, together with theobjectsandcircumstancesin thevicinity;theenvironmentorambiance.
   • 1912,Arthur Conan Doyle,The Lost World[…],London; New York, N.Y.:Hodder and Stoughton,→OCLC:

     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 hissurroundings.

   • 1988June,Spy,page27:

     We like the way they live, in their penthouselikesurroundingsfilled with fake ferns and goldfish.

   • 2010,Uché Okonkwo,Luxury Online: Styles, Systems, Strategies,page226:

     The e-boutique has to engage them in an elevated way and they have to be stimulated by the virtualsurroundings.

2. (physics)All parts of the universe that are not within thethermodynamicsystemof interest.

Translations

area surrounding someone or something

• Arabic:مُحِيط(ar)m(muḥīṭ)
• Belarusian:навако́ллеn(navakóllje)
• Bulgarian:око́лности(bg)fpl(okólnosti)
• Catalan:entorn(ca)m,ambient(ca)m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Chung quanh／Chung quanh(zau¹wai⁴)

  Mandarin:Chung quanh／Chung quanh(zh)(zhōuwéi)

• Czech:okolí(cs)n
• Danish:omgivelsec
• Dutch:omgeving(nl)f
• Egyptian:(hꜣw)
• Esperanto:ĉirkaŭo,ĉirkaŭaĵo
• Finnish:ympäristö(fi)
• French:environnement(fr)m,voisinage(fr)m
• Galician:contornaf
• Georgian:არემარე(aremare),მიდამო(midamo),გარემომცველი არე(garemomcveli are),შემოგარენი(šemogareni),გარემო(garemo)
• German:Umgebung(de)f
• Hebrew:סְבִיבָה(he)f(s'vivá)
• Irish:urthimpeallm,timpeallachtf
• Italian:ambiente(it)m
• Japanese:Chu 囲(ja)(しゅうい, shūi)
• Korean:주위( chung quanh )(ko)(juwi)
• Latin:circumpositaf
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål:omgivelsermpl

• Ottoman Turkish:چوره(çevre)
• Plautdietsch:Omjäajentf
• Polish:okolica(pl)f
• Portuguese:ambiente(pt)m,redondezas,arredores(pt)
• Romanian:jur(ro)
• Russian:окре́стности(ru)fpl(okréstnosti),окру́га(ru)f(okrúga),око́лица(ru)f(okólica)(dialectal or folk)
• Sanskrit:अम्बर(sa)n(ambara)
• Slovak:okolien
• Spanish:entorno(es)m
• Turkish:civar(tr),havali(tr),etraf(tr),çevre(tr),yöre(tr)
• Ukrainian:око́лиця(uk)f(okólycja)
• Yiddish:סבֿיבֿהf(svive)

parts not within the system

• Czech:okolí(cs)n
• Finnish:ympäristö(fi)

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• Hebrew:^{(pleaseverify)}הֶקֵּף(he)m(hekéf)