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Environs   /ɪnvˈaɪrənz/   Listen
Environs

noun
1.
The area in which something exists or lives.  Synonyms: environment, surround, surroundings.
2.
An outer adjacent area of any place.  Synonym: purlieu.



Environ

verb
(past & past part. environed; pres. part. environing)
1.
Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle.  Synonyms: border, ring, skirt, surround.






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"Environs" Quotes from Famous Books



... was seen standing a scraggly-bearded individual in a ragged shirt, which offered glimpses of a hairy chest in need of soap. A stranger this chanced to be, but the genus was by no means unfamiliar in the environs of the Dabney House. The young doctor's speaking countenance, confronting him, appeared to fall a little. Doubtless he had learned by now the usual business of ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... and as they did not know the cause she had for trouble, so neither did they discover any tokens of it. She did not withdraw herself from their kind efforts to please her, and they spared no pains. They took her in boat excursions round the beautiful harbour. They shewed her the pretty environs of the Parramatta river. Nay, though it was not very easy for him to leave his business, Mr. Esthwaite went with her and his wife to the beautiful Illawarra district; put the whole party on horses, and shewed Eleanor a land of tropical beauty ...
— The Old Helmet, Volume II • Susan Warner

... not the happiness to return to his country with the other princes who had been at the siege of Troy; that his companions were changed into birds, and that these birds have their dwelling in the environs of the Temple of Diomede, which is situated near Mount Garganos; that these birds caress the Greeks who come to visit this temple, but fly at and peck the ...
— The Phantom World - or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. • Augustin Calmet

... sanctity which issued through the environs of the hermitage, and the holiness of their lives, brought many persons to them for instruction, and to profit from the edification they would receive. A very worthy person, whose name was Philip the Long, was desirous of entering the state ...
— The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi • Father Candide Chalippe

... de Noyon et des environs n'ont pas cesse de recourir a son intercession. Les personnes qui touchent ses reliques ou portent sur elles son nom beni esperent echapper pendant leur vie aux atteintes des demons, de la rage et ...
— Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing • George Barton Cutten


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