environs

noun

Etymology

From environ + -s.

  1. derived from *weyp-
  2. derived from vibrō — “to hurl, launch; shake; to tremble, vibrate
  3. derived from *gew- — “to bend, curve; an arch, vault
  4. derived from gȳrō — “to turn in a circle, rotate; to circle, revolve around
  5. derived from environ — “around, surrounding; about, approximately, roughly
  6. derived from enviroun
  7. derived from enviroun
  8. inherited from enviroun — “round about in a circle or ring; all around
  9. suffixed as environs — “environ + s

Definitions

  1. plural of environ

    plural of environ: the environment, the surroundings.

  2. third-person singular simple present indicative of environ

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for environs. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA