surrounding

• IPA^(key): /səˈɹaʊndɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
• Hyphenation: sur‧round‧ing

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surrounding

1. present participle of surround

surrounding (plural surroundings)

1. An outlying area; area in proximity to something.
2. An environment.
   • 1994, Kraft Eberhard Von Maltzahn, Nature as Landscape: Dwelling and Understanding, page 50:

     They require a surrounding which keeps them from sinking into apathy through tasks which they are able to solve and duties they can carry out.

• periphery

• “surrounding”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.