# surrounding

Pronunciation: say "suh-ROWN-ding" /səˈɹaʊndɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of surround. — present participle and gerund of surround
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of surround. Use it to say something is going all the way around something else.
   - _Police officers were surrounding the building by midnight._
   - _Surrounding the city, the hills block most of the winter wind._

## Noun

2. An outlying area; the area lying close to or around something.
   - Simple: The land or space close to a place.
   - _The castle's surroundings, mostly farmland, have changed little in a century._
   - _Hikers explored the surroundings of the village before heading into the mountains._
3. An environment; the whole set of conditions and things that exist around someone or something.
   - Simple: Everything around a person or animal, such as the air, sounds, and buildings.
   - _A calm surrounding helps patients recover faster after surgery._
   - _Soldiers are trained to stay aware of their surroundings at all times._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/surrounding (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).