'Environment' definitions:
Definition of 'environment'
(from WordNet)
noun
The totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room"
noun
The area in which something exists or lives; "the country-- the flat agricultural surround" [syn: environment, environs, surroundings, surround]
Definition of 'Environment'
From: GCIDE
- Environment \En*vi"ron*ment\, n. [Cf. F. environnement.]
- 1. Act of environing; state of being environed. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development. [1913 Webster]
- It is no friendly environment, this of thine. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'environment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ambience,
- ambient,
- atmosphere,
- backdrop,
- background,
- cincture,
- circling,
- circumambience,
- circumambiency,
- circumcincture,
- circumflexion,
- circumjacence,
- circumposition,
- circumstances,
- climate,
- conditions,
- containment,
- context,
- ecosystem,
- embracement,
- encincture,
- encirclement,
- enclosure,
- encompassment,
- enfoldment,
- envelopment,
- environs,
- existing conditions,
- full particulars,
- girding,
- girdling,
- habitat,
- inclusion,
- ins and outs,
- involvement,
- locale,
- medium,
- milieu,
- mise-en-scene,
- set of conditions,
- setting,
- situation,
- status,
- status quo,
- surrounding,
- surroundings,
- territory,
- total situation,
- whole picture