environs
1environs — ● environs nom masculin pluriel (de environ) Lieux avoisinants, alentours : Visiter les environs de Lyon. Époque avoisinante, quantité approximative : Un homme des environs de l an mille. Le loyer est aux environs de 6 000 F. ● environs… …
2environs — Environs. s. m. pluriel. Lieux d alentour. Paris & ses environs. l armée se logea aux environs de la place …
3Environs — 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. [1913 Webster] …
4environs — outskirts, 1660s, from Fr. environs, pl. of O.Fr. environ compass, circuit, from environ (adv.) around, round about (see ENVIRON (Cf. environ)) …
5Environs — (fr., spr. Angwirong), 1) Umgebung, 2) Umgegend …
6Environs — (franz., spr. angwiróng), die Umgebungen, die umliegende Gegend …
7environs — index confines, environment, locality, region, section (vicinity), site, territory, vicinity …
8environs — meaning ‘the surrounding area of a place’, is a plural noun and should be pronounced in viy rǝnz, with the same pattern as in environment …
9environs — [n] neighborhood bound, boundary, compass, confine, district, fringes*, limits, locality, outskirts, precinct, purlieus, suburb, surroundings, territory, turf, vicinity; concept 516 …
10environs — ► PLURAL NOUN ▪ the surrounding area or district. ORIGIN French, plural of environ surroundings …
