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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environ |
| Synonyms: | area, fringe, hangout, haunt, neighborhood, outskirts, periphery |
| Main Entry: | purlieu |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environment |
| Synonyms: | area, district, environs, locale, neighborhood, vicinity |
| Main Entry: | distance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interval, range |
| Synonyms: | absence, ambit, amplitude, area, bit, breadth, compass, country mile, expanse, extension, extent, far piece, farness, gap, good ways, heavens, hinterland, horizon, lapse, length, objective, orbit, outpost, outskirts, provinces, purlieu, purview, radius, reach, remoteness, remove, scope, separation, size, sky, space, span, spread, stretch, sweep, way, width |
| Main Entry: | hangout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place for socializing |
| Synonyms: | bar, den*, dive*, haunt*, home, honky-tonk, joint*, purlieu, resort, stomping ground, watering hole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | haunt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place for socializing |
| Synonyms: | abode, bar, clubhouse, cubbyhole, den, dwelling, gathering place, habitat, hangout, headquarters, home, lair, living quarters, locality, meeting place, niche, place, purlieu, range, rendezvous, resort, retreat, site, stomping ground, trysting place, watering hole |
| Main Entry: | land |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earth's surface; ownable property |
| Synonyms: | acreage, acres, area, beach, continent, country, countryside, dirt, district, earth, estate, expanse, extent, farming, farmland, field, ground, grounds, holding, home, homeland, loam, mainland, manor, nation, old sod, parcel, plot, province, purlieu, quarry, quinta, ranch, real estate, realty, region, shore, sod, soil, stretch, sweep, terra firma, terrain, territory, tillage, tract |
| Antonyms: | sea, sky |
| Main Entry: | limit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical boundary |
| Synonyms: | border, borderland, compass, confines, edge, end, extent, extreme, extremity, frontier, perimeter, periphery, precinct, purlieu |
| Notes: | delimit means to draw the boundaries or limits of something; limit (noun) means the greatest possible degree of something or the point beyond which something cannot or may not proceed - limit (verb) means to restrict or confine limit marks an end to something; limitation is the extent of one's capacity or a constraint that stops something |
| Antonyms: | limitlessness |
| Main Entry: | outskirts |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edge of a geographic area |
| Synonyms: | bedroom community, border, boundary, edge, environs, limit, outpost, periphery, purlieu, purlieus, sticks, suburb, suburbia, vicinity |
| Antonyms: | center, downtown |
| Main Entry: | rendezvous |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place for get-together |
| Synonyms: | gathering point, hangout, haunt, love nest, meeting place, purlieu, resort, spot, stomping ground, venue, watering hole |
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