'Environs' definitions:
Definition of 'environs'
(from WordNet)
noun
The area in which something exists or lives; "the country-- the flat agricultural surround" [syn: environment, environs, surroundings, surround]
noun
An outer adjacent area of any place [syn: environs, purlieu]
Definition of 'Environs'
From: GCIDE
- Environs \En*vi"rons\ (?; 277), n. pl. [F.] The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. --Chesterfield. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'environs'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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