Synonyms:
milieu, surroundings
Meaning: the environmental condition
Synonyms:
environment, environs, surroundings, surround
Meaning: the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround"
Usage examples
From that strange source of light, I glanced down again to my surroundings.
You belong with the oxen and the drudges, in dirty surroundings among smells and stenches.
The light of the moon was so strong that he could make out the surroundings almost as well as in daylight.
After the animal has been thus fitted, its desire is for those things normally to be found in its surroundings.
But with all his pride he never forgot that it was a reward for trying to be content with his surroundings and making the best of them.
Andrey Yefimitch knew that such surroundings were torture to feverish, consumptive, and impressionable patients; but what could be done?
Joe Wegg made a rapid recovery, his strength returning under the influence of pleasant surroundings and frequent visits from Ethel and Uncle John's three nieces.
As pure shining beads upon a thread of gold I saw this small, dear picture, reiterant and unchanged, year after year, always with the same calm and pure surroundings.
It is for a great man's contemporaries to discover him, to make much of him, and to put him in surroundings where he may flourish luxuriantly in his own heaven-intended way.
A sweet gentle-faced young woman she was, with the same deep blue eyes as her little son; she bore no resemblance to the elder woman, and looked, as she indeed was, superior to her surroundings.