That which stands around or surrounds; the totality of surrounding things; surroundings; environment. Obsolete (exc. nonce-use as in 1832).

That which encompasses; environment.

= environment, n. 2a.

Environment.

A thing that attends, plural surroundings.

Circumambient quality or condition; that which encompasses; surrounding, environment.

Environment, surroundings; atmosphere, esp. of a pleasant or appealing nature. Frequently (esp. in later use): the mood, character, or atmosphere…

The area surrounding a place or thing; the environs, surroundings, or physical context. Also figurative.

The quality of being circumjacent; concrete (in plural) circumjacent parts, environs.

A surrounding area or district. Also figurative. Now archaic and rare (largely replaced by environment).

The aggregate of all the things, circumstances, etc., surrounding a person or thing; one's environment.

transferred and figurative. The environment or surroundings in which a person or thing is ‘set’; the literary framework of a narrative or other…

the action of enshrining, in quot. figurative; also concrete that which enshrines or envelops; in plural the surroundings.

Surroundings, environment; esp. the assemblage of persons who surround, or are in attendance on, a superior.

An environment; surroundings, esp. social surroundings. Cf. medium, n. 5b.

plural. Those things which surround a person or thing, or in the midst of which he or it (habitually) is; things around (collectively); environment.

Mood, character, atmosphere, esp. of a particular place. Cf. ambience, n. 1. Chiefly in Italian- and Spanish-speaking contexts.

The setting, surroundings, or background of any event or action.

The area or substance surrounding something; the vicinity, surroundings, or environment (of something).

The outer world, or reality, as it affects the organisms inhabiting it.