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| Main Entry: |
outskirts
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| 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: | suburb |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | neighborhood outside of but reliant on nearby large city |
| Synonyms: | bedroom community, burb, country, countryside, environs, fringe, hamlet, hinterland, outlying area, outpost, outskirts, precinct, purlieu, residential area, slub, suburbia, village |
| Antonyms: | center, metropolis |
| Main Entry: | surroundings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environment |
| Synonyms: | ambience, atmosphere, background, climate, community, environs, home, location, medium, milieu, neighborhood, setting, vicinity |
| Main Entry: | vicinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | local area |
| Synonyms: | around*, ballpark, district, environment, environs, hood, locality, nearness, neck of the woods, neighborhood, precinct, pretty near, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, range, region, surroundings, territory, turf*, vicinage |
| Antonyms: | faraway |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | purlieu |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environment |
| Synonyms: | area, district, environs, locale, neighborhood, vicinity |
| Main Entry: | ambiance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environment |
| Synonyms: | ambience, atmosphere, climate, environs, milieu, setting, surroundings |
| Main Entry: | locality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environment |
| Synonyms: | ambiance, area, aura, backdrop, background, circumstances, climate, conditions, context, domain, element, encompassment, entourage, environs, habitat, hood, jungle*, locale, location, medium, milieu, neck of the woods, neighborhood, place, purlieus, scene, scenery, setting, situation, status, stomping ground, surroundings, terrain, territory, turf, vicinity, zoo |
| Notes: | a location is a place, a locality is an area within a place, and a locale is a place regarded as an environment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | locality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | neighborhood |
| Synonyms: | adjacency, area, belt, block, closeness, confines, contiguity, district, environs, ghetto, hood, jungle*, locale, nearness, neck of the woods, parish, part, precinct, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, region, section, slum, stomping ground, street, suburb, territory, tract, turf, vicinage, vicinity, ward, zone, zoo |
| Notes: | a location is a place, a locality is an area within a place, and a locale is a place regarded as an environment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | beset |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plague; hem in |
| Synonyms: | aggress, assail, attack, badger, bedevil, beleaguer, besiege, bug*, circle*, compass, dog*, drive up the wall, embarrass, encircle, enclose, encompass, entangle, environ, fall on, fall upon, girdle, give a bad time, give a hard time, give one the business, give the needle, harass, harry, hassle, infest, invade, jump on one's case, nag, nudge, overrun, perplex, pester, pick on, put the squeeze on, ride, ring, start in on, storm, strike, surround |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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