environs

environs
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • environs — ● environs nom masculin pluriel (de environ) Lieux avoisinants, alentours : Visiter les environs de Lyon. Époque avoisinante, quantité approximative : Un homme des environs de l an mille. Le loyer est aux environs de 6 000 F. ● environs… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • environs — Environs. s. m. pluriel. Lieux d alentour. Paris & ses environs. l armée se logea aux environs de la place …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • 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] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • environs — outskirts, 1660s, from Fr. environs, pl. of O.Fr. environ compass, circuit, from environ (adv.) around, round about (see ENVIRON (Cf. environ)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • Environs — (fr., spr. Angwirong), 1) Umgebung, 2) Umgegend …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Environs — (franz., spr. angwiróng), die Umgebungen, die umliegende Gegend …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • environs — index confines, environment, locality, region, section (vicinity), site, territory, vicinity …   Law dictionary

  • environs — meaning ‘the surrounding area of a place’, is a plural noun and should be pronounced in viy rǝnz, with the same pattern as in environment …   Modern English usage

  • environs — [n] neighborhood bound, boundary, compass, confine, district, fringes*, limits, locality, outskirts, precinct, purlieus, suburb, surroundings, territory, turf, vicinity; concept 516 …   New thesaurus

  • environs — ► PLURAL NOUN ▪ the surrounding area or district. ORIGIN French, plural of environ surroundings …   English terms dictionary

  • environs — [ən vī′rənz, invīərnz] pl.n. [ME enviroun (sing.) < OFr environ, orig. adv., around < en , EN 1 + viron, a circuit < virer, to turn: see VEER1] 1. the districts surrounding a town or city; suburbs or outskirts 2. surrounding area;… …   English World dictionary

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