surroundings

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity; the environment or ambiance.

   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 his surroundings.

2. 2
   noun

   the area in which something exists or lives

3. 3
   noun

   the environmental condition

4. 4
   noun

   plural of surrounding

5. 5
   noun

   All parts of the universe that are not within the thermodynamic system of interest.