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[ suh-roun-ding ] / səˈraʊn dɪŋ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR surrounding ON THESAURUS.COM
nounsomething that surrounds. surroundings, environing things, circumstances, conditions, etc.; environment: He was too sick to be aware of his surroundings. the act of encircling or enclosing. adjectiveenclosing or encircling. being the environment or adjacent area. Origin of surroundingFirst recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English: literally “inundation”; see origin at surround, -ing1, -ing2 synonym study for surrounding2. See environment. Words nearby surroundingsurrey, surrogacy, surrogate, surrogate mother, surround, surrounding, surroundings, surround sound, surround theater, sur-royal, sursum corda Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for surroundingThe families announced along with it that they had entered a “phase of silence” surrounding the details of the new deal. A Sunni-Shia Love Story Imperiled by al Qaeda|Ruth Michaelson|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST There are lovingly tended flower beds along each road and surrounding every barrack. Afghanistan, We Hardly Knew You|Jonathan Foreman|December 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST Some urban cores have recovered nicely, but most often the surrounding city areas have continued to see slow or negative growth. The Progressives’ War on Suburbia|Joel Kotkin|November 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST The panels produce electricity, which can charge phones and laptops through USB ports embedded in the surrounding benches. Parks and Regeneration|The Daily Beast|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Skeletons and calavera motifs, surrounding Latin women, feature prominently in his paintings. New Orleans’ Carnivalesque Day of the Dead|Jason Berry|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST In the dusk of the world, out of the deeper shadow of the surrounding trees, his house looked grimly upon him. His mother preferred to kneel, but admitted it was wise to conform to surrounding custom lest one forget in a public place. Wilderness of Spring|Edgar Pangborn His tail is so short, that it is completely concealed by the surrounding hair. The Western World|W.H.G. Kingston Presently these undermined rocks would collapse, dragging down in their fall all the surrounding earth. Peasant Tales of Russia|V.I. Nemirovitch-Dantchenko The surrounding farmers did not care to interfere; it was no business of theirs. The Toilers of the Field|Richard Jefferies
Words related to surroundingneighboring, encompassing, enclosing, around, circumambient, circumferential |