purlieus

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

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  • purlieus — index border, locality, location, part (place), region, section (vicinity) Burton s Legal Thesaurus …   Law dictionary

  • purlieus — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pl. neighborhood, environs, surroundings, outskirts, limits, bounds, confines. See nearness …   English dictionary for students

  • purlieus — pur|lieus [ˈpə:lju:z US ˈpə:rlu:z] n [plural] [Date: 1400 1500; : Anglo French; Origin: puralé checking of a land border by walking around it , from Old French puraler to go through ; influenced by lieu ( LIEU)] literary the area in and around a… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • purlieus — pur|lieus [ pɜrl,juz ] noun plural LITERARY the outer areas of a place …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • purlieus — pur·lieus || pÉœrluːz / pɜːlju n. surroundings, environs …   English contemporary dictionary

  • purlieus — n. pl. [Used generally in a bad sense.] Environs, precincts, suburbs, neighborhood, vicinage, borders, limits, outskirts, confines …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • purlieus — noun (plural) literary the area in and around a place …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • purlieus — UK [ˈpɜː(r)ljuːz] / US [ˈpɜrlˌjuz] noun [plural] literary the outer areas of a place …   English dictionary

  • purlieus —   n.pl. neighbourhood; suburb(s) …   Dictionary of difficult words

  • purlieus — n neighbourhood, surroundings, vicinity, suburbs, environs, precincts, periphery, borders, bounds, confines, limits, fringes, perimeter, outskirts …   Useful english dictionary

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