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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
surroundings
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
comfortable surroundings (=comfortable things around you)
▪ Relax in the comfortable surroundings of the hotel.
congenial atmosphere/surroundings/environment
▪ The department provides a congenial atmosphere for research.
elegant surroundings
▪ You can dine in elegant surroundings.
familiar surroundings
▪ It was a relief to be back in familiar surroundings.
idyllic setting/surroundings/scene etc
▪ If you want old-world tradition in an idyllic setting, this is the hotel for you.
unfamiliar surroundings/place/environment etc
▪ She stood on deck to gaze at the unfamiliar surroundings.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
beautiful
▪ Child abuse, wife battering, family break-up, delinquency and alcoholism are no respecters of beautiful surroundings.
▪ The sun was now high and I noticed how very beautiful were the surroundings.
▪ A fascinating ancient open iron workings in beautiful surroundings.
▪ The atmosphere, beautiful surroundings and music will create a truly memorable occasion.
▪ Did not two of history's greatest villains come from beautiful surroundings?
▪ Excellent climbing can be combined with a family holiday in beautiful surroundings, with a virtual guarantee of sunshine.
▪ Local artists and craftspeople exhibit their work, discuss and demonstrate their skills in the Manor and its beautiful surroundings.
comfortable
▪ Constant attention and stimulation in comfortable surroundings worked wonders for Christopher, now 4 1 / 2.
▪ The atmosphere here is friendly - an ideal place for Club Couples to spend a relaxing holiday in comfortable surroundings.
▪ The Pallasades, the Pavilions are bright new malls, with the top fashion chain stores in comfortable and convenient surroundings.
▪ We are sure you will find that our friendly efficient staff and comfortable surroundings will make your visit one to remember.
▪ The retired can squat, smoke, reminisce and grow old and die in familiar, comfortable surroundings.
congenial
▪ I like to take my pleasures in more congenial surroundings, cara.
elegant
▪ The Consort Select menu and elegant surroundings.
▪ The management prides itself on offering comfortable accommodation in elegant surroundings, and puts an emphasis on providing excellent service.
▪ That's the unanimous verdict of shoppers who are impressed by the elegant surroundings, high quality shops and first rate service.
familiar
▪ Now he was in the wilderness, separated from friend and foe alike and far from familiar surroundings.
▪ We learned to go extra early so he could become familiar with surroundings.
▪ All children will tend to suffer from separation from their parents, siblings and familiar surroundings.
▪ The retired can squat, smoke, reminisce and grow old and die in familiar, comfortable surroundings.
▪ He took in the familiar surroundings with a refreshed, amused eye.
▪ And you can have the course of vaccinations in the familiar surroundings of your general practitioner's surgery.
▪ The busy executive will walk here, though she would use her car for far shorter journeys in more familiar surroundings.
idyllic
▪ Luxury accommodation, exciting destinations, quality, service and flexibility. 84-pages of exceptional value in idyllic surroundings.
▪ Everyone involved in the filming has enjoyed working in such idyllic surroundings.
▪ Other tavernas stray across the beach to the water's edge offering idyllic surroundings and cool wine instead.
▪ In its idyllic surroundings of the Herefordshire Wye Valley Courtfield has become a natural haven of peace.
▪ Later they hosted a reception for 75 guests in idyllic surroundings.
immediate
▪ Not all Sussex landlords could afford, or even wished, to effect such a wholesale reordering of their immediate surroundings.
▪ This resulted in a greater awareness not only of global issues, but also of threats to our immediate surroundings.
natural
▪ The picturesque stone-walled villages and farms blend into the natural surroundings and add to their beauty.
▪ It will soon be moved to another site where, it is hoped, the animals will have more natural surroundings.
▪ For some this book may epitomise movement and dance - people in their natural surroundings and rhythm.
▪ In recent years however, scientists have taken a greater interest in the exciting possibilities of observing animals in their natural surroundings.
new
▪ Reportedly they are delighted by their new surroundings.
▪ What we missed in continuous contacts over a long period, we gained by becoming adapted to new surroundings quickly.
▪ She had refused to be parted from it, and leniency had been shown during her first few days in new surroundings.
▪ You have to move on to new surroundings.
▪ Moma Parsheen embraced her new surroundings intently.
▪ But short-lived was the enjoyment I took in these new surroundings.
▪ Big Momma explored her new surroundings in the near-darkness.
▪ As my own competence in these new surroundings grew, I became a stronger human being-and a much better activist.
pleasant
▪ I need to work in pleasant surroundings 23.
▪ Built in 1806 with lots of original features set in pleasant surroundings, guest lounge with open coal fire.
▪ In return Hubert gave her security, pleasant surroundings, a degree of social standing and, of course, the twins.
▪ High level of comfort in pleasant surroundings.
▪ Find a quiet, well-ventilated room with pleasant surroundings if possible, where you will not be disturbed for at least fifteen minutes.
▪ Friendly bar staff, pleasant surroundings.
▪ The Institute is situated is pleasant rural surroundings and offers excellent sports, recreational and social facilities.
▪ The four separate units which make up the Loutrouvia apartments are set back from the main road in pleasant surroundings.
rural
▪ Further along, one could see where the street passed over a round-backed bridge and on into more rural surroundings.
▪ Our spacious room included a large sitting area, modern bathroom and shower and a view of the breathtaking rural surroundings.
▪ For a period, many of them were housed in the Culloden Hotel amid rural surroundings in Co.
▪ In the peaceful rural surroundings of Thorsbury, Tamar felt truly at home.
▪ The Institute is situated is pleasant rural surroundings and offers excellent sports, recreational and social facilities.
unfamiliar
▪ They agonised over how their children would feel in unfamiliar and hostile surroundings as they, too, were interrogated.
▪ Laboratory experiments have proven that unfamiliar surroundings and a change in daily schedule can lead to sleep problems.
▪ It took D'Arcy a few seconds to connect the familiar face in the unfamiliar surroundings.
▪ If people are already ill at ease in unfamiliar surroundings the order of service becomes another pressure.
▪ It's not only riding skills that count when considering a holiday, but the ability to cope in unfamiliar surroundings.
▪ Players will tend to perform better when they are among friends than when they are placed in unfamiliar surroundings.
▪ Shooting video in unfamiliar surroundings raises potential hazards.
▪ Working as a team, and working in unfamiliar surroundings are important.
■ VERB
blend
▪ The picturesque stone-walled villages and farms blend into the natural surroundings and add to their beauty.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It took me a few weeks to get used to my new surroundings.
▪ The house is set in beautiful surroundings near Lake Coniston.
▪ The mountaintop provides a spectacular view of Innsbruck and its surroundings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Everyone involved in the filming has enjoyed working in such idyllic surroundings.
▪ Gandhi always craved harmony with his surroundings.
▪ I suppose they're dumbfounded by their surroundings.
▪ Long enough that he stopped looking around, stopped measuring his relationship to his surroundings.
▪ Therefore puppies housed after weaning in insanitary surroundings are at greatest risk from this vice.
▪ They feel that the more control they can exercise over their surroundings, the safer life will be for them.
▪ Unlike mechanical clocks, which are completely blind to their surroundings, a biological clock gets reset every day by the sun.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
surroundings

"environment," 1857, plural verbal noun from surround (v.).

Wiktionary
surroundings

n. 1 (plural of surrounding English)Category:English plurals 2 the area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity; the environment or ambiance 3 (context physics English) All parts of the universe that are not within the thermodynamic system of interest.

WordNet
surroundings

  1. n. the environmental condition [syn: milieu]

  2. the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround" [syn: environment, environs, surround]

Wikipedia
Surroundings

Surroundings are the area around a given physical or geographical point or place. The exact definition depends on the field. Surroundings can also be used in geography (when it is more precisely known as vicinity, or vicinage) and mathematics, as well as philosophy, with the literal or metaphorically extended definition.

In thermodynamics, the term (and its synonym, environment) is used in a more restricted sense, meaning everything outside the thermodynamic system. Often, the simplifying assumptions are that energy and matter may move freely within the surroundings, and that the surroundings have a uniform composition.

Usage examples of "surroundings".

He had to be on the far side of forty-five but he had a youthful skin and, out of his official surroundings, he displayed more enthusiasm than she supposed careworn or rank-conscious admirals usually did.

White snowy ground underfoot, white sky overhead, and white haze and snowfall obscuring any other features of the surroundings, whiteout was disorienting and dangerous.

Clearly she felt at home in civilized surroundings and had not gone native.

The lack of treatments of any kind, the tenor of the conversations I overheard on the loudspeakers, contrasted strangely with the luxurious surroundings and the physical appearance girls and patients were made to maintain.

Aygar was staring into the distance, indifferent to his surroundings and the marines' weapons.

You have to rely upon what you are, who you are, not what your surroundings tell you you are.

Then, as she took in her surroundings, the bubbles of joyous feelings went as flat as long-opened Stemerald.

They advanced with the economic efficiency of battle cruisers and their heads swung like gun turrets, ceaselessly examining their surroundings for any threat.

The Ozranians hung back a moment, reluctant to leave the surroundings that were, if not home, then safe and familiar.

Zara was too awed by her surroundings to have any other reaction than a good long look around her.

Considerable thought and care had been taken to approximate planetary surroundings, to make residents and transients forget the hostile conditions outside.

Awareness of her surroundings gradually increased and she roused to the sound of human voices raised in a happy clamor somewhere nearby.

She was adept enough at sussing her immediate surroundings without appearing to do so, yet she had the sense that Sean was aware of her automatic scanning.

All of the colors were watered down with the familiar omnipresent gray, so that the squat, rectangular buildings merely stood out in ugly relief from the snowy surroundings but achieved nothing so frivolous as beauty or gaiety.

Easley worked tirelessly in directing his teams, asking only for their names and their origin before turning them over to Yuri Palit's resettlement people, transporting the 'walking wounded' to calmer surroundings as soon as possible.