environs

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French environs.

Noun

1. The surroundings; the environment.

Verb

environs

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of environ

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.vi.ʁɔ̃/

Noun

environs m pl (plural only)

1. neighborhood (close proximity, particularly in reference to home)

Further reading

• “environs”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• enivrons