environment, environs, surroundings, surround
(noun) the area in which something exists or lives; “the country--the flat agricultural surround”
besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent
(verb) surround so as to force to give up; “The Turks besieged Vienna”
wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround
(verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify
surround, environ, ring, skirt, border
(verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; “The forest surrounds my property”
smother, surround
(verb) envelop completely; “smother the meat in gravy”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
surround (third-person singular simple present surrounds, present participle surrounding, simple past and past participle surrounded)
(transitive) To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
(transitive) To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
(transitive, obsolete) To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
• bebay
• beleaguer
• beset
surround (plural surrounds)
(British) Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.
Source: Wiktionary
Sur*round", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surrounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Surrounding.] Etym: [OF. suronder to overflow, LL. superundare; fr. L. super over + undare to rise in waves, overflow, fr. unda wave. The English sense is due to the influence of E. round. See Super-, and Undulate, and cf. Abound.]
1. To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
2. To lie or be on all sides of; to encircle; as, a wall surrounds the city. But could instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me. Milton.
3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate; as, to surround the world. [Obs.] Fuller.
4. (Mil.)
Definition: To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city.
Syn.
– To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about.
Sur*round", n.
Definition: A method of hunting some animals, as the buffalo, by surrounding a herd, and driving them over a precipice, into a ravine, etc. [U.S.] Baird.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 July 2025
(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
