surroundings
- 1The place around you, including the things and conditions nearby.
Like everything you can see when you stand still and look all around you.
The hikers stopped to admire their beautiful surroundings.
A new baby slowly learns about its surroundings.
Similarenvironment, setting, environs, milieu
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- 2Plural of surrounding. It usually means the place and things around someone or something.
The cabin's rustic surroundings made the whole trip feel peaceful.
The puppy sniffed around its new surroundings.
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- 3In science, everything outside the system you are studying.
Like the air in a room around a warm cup: everything outside the thing you care about.
Heat from the engine flows out into its surroundings.
The hot coffee slowly loses energy to the cooler surroundings.
Similarenvironment
Oppositesystem
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surroundings is a form of surrounding
surrounding, noun: The land or space close to a place. Full entry
- Forms
- surroundingsurroundings plural
- Spelling
- surrounding → surroundings: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
Practice
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