Meanings
- pluralplural of surrounding
- pluralplural onlyThe area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity; the environment or ambiance.
We like the way they live, in their penthouselike surroundings filled with fake ferns and goldfish.
1988 June, Spy, page 273 more examples
His tall, gaunt, stringy figure is insensible to fatigue, and his dry, half-sarcastic, and often wholly unsympathetic manner is uninfluenced by any change in his surroundings.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLCThe e-boutique has to engage them in an elevated way and they have to be stimulated by the virtual surroundings.
2010, Uché Okonkwo, Luxury Online: Styles, Systems, Strategies, page 226Although operational environments profoundly differ, both kinds of autonomous vehicles, groundcraft and aircraft, will still rely on conceptually the same sorts of sensors — cameras, radar and lidar — to perceive surroundings in real time.
2020 January 1, Adam Hadhazy, “Achieving autonomy”, in Aerospace America, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2025Synonyms: surround
- pluralplural onlynatural sciencesAll parts of the universe that are not within the thermodynamic system of interest.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity; the environment or ambiance.
More synonyms by meaning
nounthe area in which something exists or lives
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic مُحِيط
- مُحِيط (muḥīṭ)area surrounding someone or something
Bulgarian око́лности
- око́лности (okólnosti)area surrounding someone or something
Catalan entorn, ambient
- entornarea surrounding someone or something
- ambientarea surrounding someone or something
Chinese Cantonese 周圍 /周围
- 周圍 /周围 (zau¹ wai⁴)area surrounding someone or something
Chinese Mandarin 周圍 /周围
- 周圍 /周围 (zhōuwéi)area surrounding someone or something
Czech okolí, okolí
- okolíarea surrounding someone or something
- okolíparts not within the system
Danish omgivelse
- omgivelsearea surrounding someone or something
Dutch omgeving
- omgevingarea surrounding someone or something
Esperanto ĉirkaŭo, ĉirkaŭaĵo
- ĉirkaŭoarea surrounding someone or something
- ĉirkaŭaĵoarea surrounding someone or something
Finnish ympäristö, ympäristö
- ympäristöarea surrounding someone or something
- ympäristöparts not within the system
French environnement, voisinage
- environnementarea surrounding someone or something
- voisinagearea surrounding someone or something
German Umgebung
- Umgebungarea surrounding someone or something
Hebrew סְבִיבָה
- סְבִיבָה (s'vivá)area surrounding someone or something
Irish urthimpeall, timpeallacht
- urthimpeallarea surrounding someone or something
- timpeallachtarea surrounding someone or something
Italian ambiente
- ambientearea surrounding someone or something
Japanese 周囲
- 周囲 (shūi)area surrounding someone or something
Korean 주위
- 주위 (juwi)area surrounding someone or something
Latin circumposita
- circumpositaarea surrounding someone or something
Norwegian Bokmål omgivelser
- omgivelserarea surrounding someone or something
Polish okolica
- okolicaarea surrounding someone or something
Portuguese ambiente, redondezas
- ambientearea surrounding someone or something
- redondezasarea surrounding someone or something
- arredoresarea surrounding someone or something
Romanian jur
- jurarea surrounding someone or something
Russian окре́стности, окру́га
- окре́стности (okréstnosti)area surrounding someone or something
- окру́га (okrúga)area surrounding someone or something
- око́лица (okólica)area surrounding someone or something
Slovak okolie
- okoliearea surrounding someone or something
Spanish entorno
- entornoarea surrounding someone or something
Turkish civar, havali
- civararea surrounding someone or something
- havaliarea surrounding someone or something
- etrafarea surrounding someone or something
- çevrearea surrounding someone or something
- yörearea surrounding someone or something
Ukrainian око́лиця
- око́лиця (okólycja)area surrounding someone or something
Yiddish סבֿיבֿה
- סבֿיבֿה (svive)area surrounding someone or something
Cite this entry
surroundings. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/surroundings
“surroundings.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/surroundings. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “surroundings,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/surroundings.
Source: surroundings on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.