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51environment — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Surrounding things or conditions Nouns 1. environment, encompassment, circumjacence, circumference; atmosphere, ambience, aura, medium, surroundings (see circumstance); environs, outposts, outskirts,… …
52ambient — a. Surrounding, investing, encompassing, enfolding, embosoming, encircling, circling, circumjacent, circumambient …
53circumambient — a. Surrounding, encompassing, encircling, circling, circumjacent, ambient …
54about — prep 1. concerning, concerned with, touching, dealing with, regarding, in or with regard to, anent, respecting, with respect to, referring to, with reference to, of; relating to, in relation to, relative to, connected or associated with; engaged… …
55around — adv 1. about, on all sides, right and left, in all directions; everywhere, throughout, all over, in all parts, over, through; to and fro, here and there, hither and thither, hither and yon, far and wide. 2. in circumference, perimetrically,… …
56local — adj 1. positional, locational, spatial, situational. 2. provincial, parochial, municipal, regional, sectional, divisional, territorial; county, district, town, city; neighborhood, small town, red brick. 3. home, homemade, homespun; native,… …
57neighboring — adj abutting, adjoining, adjacent, contiguous, touching, juxtapositional; bordering, bordering on, verging on, connecting, next, backing up to; close, near, nearest, very near, at hand, close at hand, near at hand; proximal, proximate, verging on …
58peripheral — adj 1. peripheric, perimetric, circumferential, outlinear, outlying, outer, on the edge, on the rim, marginal; surrounding, circumjacent, circumscribing, circumspective, encircling; ambient, circumambient, environing, circumfluent. 2. superficial …
59surrounding — n 1. perimeter, enclosure, belt, border. See surround(def. 3). 2. surroundings environs, neighborhood, vicinity, vicinage, region, area, locale, district, section; environment, habitat, setting, Fr. mise en scene. scene, entourage, milieu,… …
60haven — A place of a large receipt and safe riding of ships, so situate and secured by the land circumjacent that the vessels thereby ride and anchor safely, and are protected by the adjacent land from dangerous or violent winds; as Milford Haven,… …
