Synonyms: environment, environs, surround, surroundings
Definition: the area in which something exists or lives
Usage: the country--the flat agricultural surround
Similar words: geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region
Definition: a demarcated area of the Earth
Synonyms: environment
Definition: the totality of surrounding conditions
Usage: he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room
Similar words: situation, state of affairs
Definition: the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
Usage: the present international situation is dangerous; wondered how such a state of affairs had come about; eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation- Franklin D.Roosevelt