surround

1. 1.

   the area in which something exists or lives

   “the country--the flat agricultural surround”

   Synonymsenvironmentenvironssurroundings

   Broadergeographical area

   Narrowerambiancemediumsettingelementhabitatmelting potparts

Other forms of surround

plural

surrounds·

past tense

surrounded·

present participle

surrounding·

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 surround

What does surround mean?

surround means "extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surround?

surround has 2 syllables: sur-round. The stress falls on "round". In IPA it is /sɚˈaʊnd/.

What is another word for surround?

Close synonyms include environ, ring, skirt, border, smother. 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 surround a common word?

surround is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with surround?

2 words rhyme with surround. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.