Environs

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Environs \En*vi"rons\ (?; 277), n. pl. [F.]
     The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in
     its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or
     town. --Chesterfield.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  environs
       n : the area in which something exists or lives; "the
           country--the flat agricultural surround" [syn: {environment},
            {surroundings}, {surround}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "environs":
     airspace, alentours, ambience, ambit, approach, approximation,
     area, belt, borderlands, boundary, bounds, circle, circuit,
     circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, closeness,
     compass, confines, context, continental shelf, convergence,
     corridor, country, department, district, division, entourage,
     environing circumstances, environment, foreground, fringes,
     gestalt, ground, habitat, heartland, hinterland, immediacy,
     immediate foreground, land, limits, locality, milieu, nearness,
     neighborhood, nighness, offshore rights, outposts, outskirts, part,
     parts, perimeter, periphery, place, precinct, precincts, premises,
     propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, region, salient,
     section, situation, soil, space, suburbs, surroundings, terrain,
     territory, three-mile limit, total environment, twelve-mile limit,
     vicinage, vicinity, zone