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Definitions for environs
ɛnˈvaɪ rənz, -ˈvaɪ ərnzen·vi·rons

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. environment, environs, surroundings, surroundnoun

    the area in which something exists or lives

    "the country--the flat agricultural surround"

  2. environs, purlieunoun

    an outer adjacent area of any place

Wiktionary

  1. environsnoun

    The surroundings; the environment.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Environsnoun

    The neighbourhood or neighbouring places round about the country.

    Etymology: environs, French.

ChatGPT

  1. environs

    The surroundings or areas near or around a specific place; the vicinity. It can also refer to the particular social or physical conditions associated with a certain event, process, or period.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Environs

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

  2. Etymology: [F.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of environs in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of environs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of environs in a Sentence

  1. Alexander Herzen:

    People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.

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