Synonyms for surroundings
sur·round·ings

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1. milieu, surroundingsnoun

   the environmental condition

   Synonyms:
   surround, milieu, environment, environs

2. environment, environs, surroundings, surroundnoun

   the area in which something exists or lives

   "the country--the flat agricultural surround"

   Synonyms:
   surround, milieu, purlieu, environment, environs

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1. surroundingsnoun

   Synonyms:
   environment, entourage

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1. List of paraphrases for "surroundings":

   moheet, environs, environment, periphery, outskirts, environments

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1. Fire Chief Jim Frawley:

   Every time you go into the ocean you always run the risk of encountering the wildlife that is there, we just caution people to be aware of their surroundings, understand what the conditions are not only about what is in the water but how the water behaves and also to listen and heed any warnings from lifeguards and Ocean Safety staff.

2. Bill Cosby:

   She meets me backstage, i give her Quaaludes. We then have sex. ... I think she may very well have been very happy to be around the show business surroundings.

3. Jonathan Akubu:

   I think that there are too many guns on the street, i would n’t hide in the basement, but I would be concerned about my surroundings. Be concerned about, in a car, what’s around me. It’s what you do in the city.

4. Okakura Kakuzo:

   The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

5. Henry Albert Ben, _The Second Law_:

   Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature.