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environs
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | neighborhood |
| Synonyms: | bound, boundary, compass, confine, district, fringes, limits, locality, outskirts, precinct, purlieus, suburb, surroundings, territory, turf, vicinity |
| Main Entry: | bound/bounds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | farthest limit |
| Synonyms: | boundary, compass, confine, edge, end, environs, extremity, fringe, limit, limitation, line, march, margin, pale, periphery, precinct, purlieus, rim, term, termination, verge |
| Antonyms: | inside, interior, minimum |
| Main Entry: | compass |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boundary, periphery |
| Synonyms: | ambit, area, bound, circle, circuit, circumference, circumscription, confines, domain, enclosure, environs, expanse, extent, field, limit, limitation, orbit, perimeter, precinct, purlieus, purview, radius, range, reach, realm, restriction, round, scope, sphere, stretch, sweep, zone |
| Main Entry: | confines |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boundaries |
| Synonyms: | borders, bounds, circumference, compass, country, dimension, edge, end, environs, extent, limits, orbit, periphery, precinct, proportions, purlieus, purview, radius, range, reach, region, scope, sweep, term, terrain, territory |
| Antonyms: | open |
| Main Entry: | ecosystem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environment |
| Synonyms: | ecological community, environs |
| Main Entry: | environment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | Earth's system of natural resources |
| Synonyms: | Gaia, atmosphere, biosphere, ecosphere, ecosystem, environs |
| Notes: | environment emerged linked with nature, implying 'natural' (not human, not cultural) surroundings; ecology emerged as a scientific effort to connect organisms (such as the human) to their environments environment is the area in which something exists or lives; habitat is a the place or type of place where a person or thing is most likely to be found |
| Main Entry: | grounds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | estate, domain |
| Synonyms: | acreage, area, campus, country, district, environs, fields, gardens, habitat, holding, land, lot, premises, property, real estate, realm, sphere, spot, terrace, terrain, territory, tract, zone |
| Main Entry: | neighborhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | community, surroundings |
| Synonyms: | adjacency, area, block, closeness, confines, contiguity, district, environs, ghetto, hood, jungle*, locale, locality, 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
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