Usually means: Enclosing or encircling on all sides.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. surrounding: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. surrounding: Merriam-Webster
  3. surrounding: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. surrounding: Collins English Dictionary
  5. surrounding: Vocabulary.com
  6. Surrounding, surrounding: Wordnik
  7. surrounding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. surrounding: Wiktionary
  9. surrounding: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. surrounding: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. surrounding: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. surrounding: Dictionary.com
  13. surrounding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Surrounding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. surrounding: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Surrounding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. surrounding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. surrounding: FreeDictionary.org
  19. surrounding: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. surrounding: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surrounding: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  An outlying area; area in proximity to something.
▸ noun:  An environment.

Similar:
close, encompassing, envelopment, encircling, permeating, area, engulfment, affecting, impact, bordering, more...

Opposite:
distant, separate, isolated, detached, external

Types:
urban, rural, suburban, coastal, mountainous, desert, forest, industrial, more...

Phrases:
surrounding cavity wall, Controversies surrounding Grand Theft Auto V, Controversies surrounding Grand Theft Auto IV, Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine, Controversies surrounding Mass Effect 3, more...

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



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Similar:
close, encompassing, envelopment, encircling, permeating, area, engulfment, affecting, impact, bordering, more...

Opposite:
distant, separate, isolated, detached, external

Types:
urban, rural, suburban, coastal, mountainous, desert, forest, industrial, more...

Phrases:
surrounding cavity wall, Controversies surrounding Grand Theft Auto V, Controversies surrounding Grand Theft Auto IV, Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine, Controversies surrounding Mass Effect 3, more...

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



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