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surroundings

UK/səˈɹaʊndɪŋz/US/səˈɹaʊndɪŋz/
nounB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #5,839 of 15,258leans written

Surroundings are everything around a place or a person. Pleasant surroundings, adapt to the surroundings, in familiar surroundings.

It is plural only and always takes an adjective in practice, since bare surroundings says nothing. In care and in medicine, familiar surroundings is a phrase with real weight: people with dementia do markedly better in a place they know.

Definitions of surroundings

  1. 1nounsurroundingsEverything around a place or a person.B2

    “The hotel sits in beautiful surroundings, with forests and a lake nearby.”

surroundings is an environment.

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surroundings in the wild

  • In contrast, an adiabatic process is where a system exchanges no heat with its surroundings (Q = 0).

    Isothermal process

  • An isolated system does not exchange matter or energy with its surroundings.

    Thermodynamic system

  • An open system can interact with its surroundings by exchanging both matter and energy.

    Thermodynamic system

  • Seim, or Mende, is a Sepik language of Yirwondi ward and surroundings) in Mawase Rural LLG, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.

    Seim language

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.