SURROUNDINGS Synonyms

• scenery hung at back of stage

• discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation

• the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event

• a particular environment or walk of life

• territory over which rule or control is exercised

• (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined

• people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest

• the content of a particular field of knowledge

• the totality of surrounding conditions

• the area in which something exists or lives

• the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs

• an expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view

• painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery

• a genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery

• an extensive mental viewpoint

• embellish with plants

• do landscape gardening

• the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)

• the environmental condition

• a surrounding or nearby region

• people living near one another

• the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')

• an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)

• a domain in which something is dominant

• the domain ruled by a king or queen

• a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about

• the place where some action occurs

• an incident (real or imaginary)

• the visual percept of a region

• a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film

• a situation treated as an observable object

• a subdivision of an act of a play or performance

• a display of bad temper

• graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept

• the context and environment in which something is set

• the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale

• the context and environment in which something is set

• the state of the environment in which a situation exists

• arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted

• the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event

• the physical position of something

• a table service for one person

• a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place

• a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

• an area of knowledge or interest

• the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state

• a surrounding or nearby region

• closely encircling

• broad in scope or content

• closely encircling

• the outside boundary or surface of something