Definition of Environs

1. Noun. The area in which something exists or lives. "The country--the flat agricultural surround"


2. Noun. An outer adjacent area of any place.

Definition of Environs

1. n. pl. The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.

Definition of Environs

1. Noun. The surroundings; the environment. ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of environ) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Environs

1. environ [v] - See also: environ

Lexicographical Neighbors of Environs

environmental quality objective
environmental quality standard
environmental refugee
environmental science
environmental scientist
environmental scientists
environmental tobacco smoke
environmental variance
environmentalism
environmentalist
environmentalists
environmentally
environmentally friendly
environments
environomes
environs (current term)
environut
environuts
enviros
envisagable
envisage
envisaged
envisagement
envisagements
envisager
envisagers
envisages
envisaging
envision
envisioned

Literary usage of Environs

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Rhine from Rotterdam to Constance: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1903)
"1. RAILWAY MAP OF THE LOWER RHINE, from Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne 2. The environs OF CLEVS: R. 4; p. 58. to Venlo and Dortmund : ЕЕ. 1,2,4-9; p. 54. 3. ..."

2. The Western World; Or, Travels in the United States in 1846-47: Exhibiting by Alexander Mackay (1849)
"BEFORE proceeding to describe the city itself, it may not be amiss first to give a brief sketch of its situation and environs. Situated on the Atlantic, ..."

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