Usually means: Environment or context around something.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word surroundings:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. surroundings: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. surroundings: Merriam-Webster
  3. surroundings: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. surroundings: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. surroundings: Collins English Dictionary
  6. surroundings: Vocabulary.com
  7. Surroundings, surroundings: Wordnik
  8. surroundings: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. surroundings: Wiktionary
  10. surroundings: Dictionary.com
  11. surroundings: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Surroundings (thermodynamics), Surroundings: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. surroundings: Rhymezone
  14. surroundings: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. surroundings: FreeDictionary.org
  16. surroundings: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. surroundings: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surroundings: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Surroundings (thermodynamics), surroundings: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Surroundings: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  The area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity; the environment or ambiance.
▸ noun:  (physics) All parts of the universe that are not within the thermodynamic system of interest.

Similar:
environment, milieu, environs, ambient, stage set, context, ambiance, Umwelt, umbworld, surround sound, more...

Opposite:
isolation, emptiness, void, solitude, seclusion

Types:
urban, suburban, rural, wilderness, desert, forest, jungle, mountain, beach, ocean, more...

Phrases:
The Reality of My Surroundings, awareness of surroundings, fit in with surroundings, unaware of surroundings, cultural surroundings, more...

Adjectives:
new, immediate, natural, such, familiar, physical, pleasant, beautiful, social, strange, unfamiliar

Colors:
    green,     blue,     brown,     gray,     beige, more...



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Similar:
environment, milieu, environs, ambient, stage set, context, ambiance, Umwelt, umbworld, surround sound, more...

Opposite:
isolation, emptiness, void, solitude, seclusion

Types:
urban, suburban, rural, wilderness, desert, forest, jungle, mountain, beach, ocean, more...

Phrases:
The Reality of My Surroundings, awareness of surroundings, fit in with surroundings, unaware of surroundings, cultural surroundings, aware of ones surroundings, not paying attention to surroundings, more...

Adjectives:
new, immediate, natural, such, familiar, physical, pleasant, beautiful, social, strange, unfamiliar

Colors:
    green,     blue,     brown,     gray,     beige, more...



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