Definitions for surround
səˈraʊndsur·round

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. environment, environs, surroundings, surroundverb

   the area in which something exists or lives

   "the country--the flat agricultural surround"

2. surround, environ, ring, skirt, borderverb

   extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle

   "The forest surrounds my property"

3. smother, surroundverb

   envelop completely

   "smother the meat in gravy"

4. besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumventverb

   surround so as to force to give up

   "The Turks besieged Vienna"

5. wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surroundverb

   surround with a wall in order to fortify

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. surroundnoun

   Anything, such as a fence or border that surrounds something.

2. surroundverb

   To encircle or simultaneously extend on all sides of something.

3. surroundverb

   To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.

4. Etymology: From soronder, from superundare, from super + undare.

Webster Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Surroundverb

   to inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ

2. Surroundverb

   to lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city

3. Surroundverb

   to pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world

4. Surroundverb

   to inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city

5. Surroundnoun

   a method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc

Freebase(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Surround

   Surround is the second album from Jon Bauer.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Surround

   sur-rownd′, v.t. to go round about; to encompass, environ: to cut off from communication or retreat.—n. Surround′ing, an encompassing: (pl.) things which surround, external circumstances. [O. Fr. suronder—L. superundāre, to overflow, often confused with round.]

Military Dictionary and Gazetteer(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. surround

   In sieges, to invest; in tactics, to outflank and cut off the means of retreating.

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British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'surround' in Verbs Frequency: #433

How to pronounce surround?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of surround in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of surround in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of surround in a Sentence

1. Dick Harpootlian:

   This is an indication that there is at least some desire from the people that surround the (vice president) that this process of getting him into the race has escalated.

2. Ricther:

   The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

3. Oscar Auliq-Ice:

   Surround yourself with people who are brilliant at what they do, who share your vision, and who are brave enough to disagree with you. And put your trust in them.

4. Gary Nordlinger:

   Obama is deep, deep down an intellectual, he is a product of the Ivy Leagues and it makes perfectly reasonable sense why he chooses to surround himself with these type of people.

5. Emily Chapman:

   Best thing we can do for them is surround them with adults who are vaccinated, and surround them with people who are masking and keep their masks on as much as possible.

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