Environs

n. pl.

1.

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

Noun

1.

environs - the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround" Synonyms: surround, surroundings, environment

airspace, alentours, ambience, ambit, approach, approximation, area, belt, borderlands, boundary, bounds, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, closeness, compass, confines, context, continental shelf, convergence, corridor, country, department, district, division, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, foreground, fringes, gestalt, ground, habitat, heartland, hinterland, immediacy, immediate foreground, land, limits, locality, milieu, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, offshore rights, outposts, outskirts, part, parts, perimeter, periphery, place, precinct, precincts, premises, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, region, salient, section, situation, soil, space, suburbs, surroundings, terrain, territory, three-mile limit, total environment, twelve-mile limit, vicinage, vicinity, zone

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