| 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: | absent-minded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | out to lunch |
| Synonyms: | absent, absorbed, abstracted, airheaded, airheaded, bemused, careless, daydreaming, distracted, distrait, dreaming, dreamy, engrossed, faraway, forgetful, goofing off, head in the clouds, heedless, inattentive, inconscient, lost, mooning, moony, oblivious, out to lunch, pipe dreaming, preoccupied, remote, removed, scatterbrained, space cadet, spacey, spacey, surroundings, unaware of events, unconscious, unheeding, unmindful, unobservant, unthinking, withdrawn, woolgathering |
| Antonyms: | alert, attentive, aware |
| Main Entry: | ambience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environment |
| Synonyms: | ambient, atmosphere, climate, medium, surroundings |
| Main Entry: | atmosphere |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | general feeling or mood |
| Synonyms: | air, ambience, aura, background, character, climate, color, environment, feel, feeling, flavor, impression, local color, medium, mood, place, property, quality, scene, semblance, sense, space, spirit, surroundings, taste, tone |
| Main Entry: | climate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mood of situation |
| Synonyms: | ambience, ambient, atmosphere, disposition, environment, feeling, medium, milieu, mise-en-scène, mood, surroundings, temper, tendency, trend |
| Main Entry: | countryside |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | non-city environment |
| Synonyms: | back roads, boonies, country, environment, land, landscape, non-urban area, scenery, setting, sticks, surroundings, terrain |
| Main Entry: | environment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | surroundings, atmosphere |
| Synonyms: | ambiance, aura, backdrop, background, circumstances, climate, conditions, context, domain, element, encompassment, entourage, habitat, hood, jungle*, locale, medium, milieu, neck of the woods, neighborhood, purlieus, scene, scenery, setting, situation, status, stomping ground, surroundings, terrain, territory, turf, zoo |
| 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: | environs |
| 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: | habitat/habitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place where someone resides |
| Synonyms: | abode, accommodations, address, apartment, berth, biosphere, cave, co-op, commorancy, condo, condominium, den, digs, domicile, dwelling, element, environment, fireside, flat, haunt*, haven, hearth, hole*, home, home plate, homestead, house, housing, locale, locality, lodging, neck of the woods, nest, nook, occupancy, occupation, pad, place, quarters, range, residence, residency, roof*, roost, seat*, settlement, site, stamping ground, stomping ground, surroundings, terrain, territory, turf |
| Main Entry: | medium |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | atmosphere, setting |
| Synonyms: | ambience, ambient, climate, conditions, element, habitat, influences, milieu, surroundings |