Crossword clues for environs
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"outskirts," 1660s, from French environs, Old French environ "compass, circuit," from environ (adv.) "around, round about" (see environ).
Wiktionary
n. The surroundings; the environment. vb. (en-third-person singular of: environ)
WordNet
n. the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround" [syn: environment, surroundings, surround]
Usage examples of "environs".
The cunning wizard allowed some moments to transpire, following the first tentative steps of the dwarf into the boisterous environs of the pub.
Gastroenteritis, Maui-TB, a hundred other diseases thrived in those congested environs, utterly indifferent to the antibiotics that traditionally laced cycler food.
Munching the cheese, he made his way to the dortour, where lived the students and the Revered Brethren who worked in the Temple and its environs.
The blubber, cut in parallel slices of two feet and a half in thickness, then divided into pieces which might weigh about a thousand pounds each, was melted down in large earthen pots brought to the spot, for they did not wish to taint the environs of Granite House, and in this fusion it lost nearly a third of its weight.
The steam, in turn, rotated a turbine generator wbich-along with other boilers and turbines at Cberokee-supplied almost three quarters of a million kilowatts to power-hungry Denver and environs.
In the evening, he exerted himself so far as to walk with his daughter to view the environs that overlook the lake of Leucate, the Mediterranean, part of Rousillon, with the Pyrenees, and a wide extent of the luxuriant province of Languedoc, now blushing with the ripened vintage, which the peasants were beginning to gather.
True, they still had to confront the alerted Interlopers who dwelled there, but at least his environs would not sway, and moan, and sing songs of vaporous, virulent loveliness.
There are few places, except in the environs of Mossamedes, to the south of Angola, that the shipping of blacks can now be made with any chance of success.
His own organizers were so afraid people resented his absence that he spent all of Saturday barnstorming through the environs of Prince Albert.
There was no risk attending the journey, as although Charlesbourg lay not very far from Quebec, to the north-east and in the environs of Montmorenci, it was out of the beat of the besieging forces, and could be reached by a circuitous route free from all interruptions.
Studies at another oval crater about the same age and size, Crater Tf, on the Elysium Massif show that it has the same brecciated diabase, with the same phase accessories, as SNC Crater and environs.