environment

Other forms of environment

plural

environments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about environment

What does environment mean?

environment means "the totality of surrounding conditions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in environment?

environment has 4 syllables: en-vi-ron-ment. The stress falls on "vi". In IPA it is /ɪnˈvaɪɹənmənt/.

What is another word for environment?

Close synonyms include environs, surroundings, surround. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is environment a common word?

environment is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.