surroundings

Other forms of surroundings

plural

surroundingses·

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 surroundings

What does surroundings mean?

surroundings means "the environmental condition". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surroundings?

surroundings has 3 syllables: sur-roun-dings. The stress falls on "roun". In IPA it is /sɚˈaʊndɪŋz/.

What is another word for surroundings?

Close synonyms include milieu, environment, environs, 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 surroundings a common word?

surroundings 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.