Hypertext Webster Gateway: "environment"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Environment \En*vi"ron*ment\, n. [Cf. F. environnement.]
1. Act of environing; state of being environed.
2. That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions,
influences, or forces, by which living forms are
influenced and modified in their growth and development.
It is no friendly environment, this of thine.
--Carlyle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
environment
n 1: the totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the
comfortable environment of his livingroom"
2: the area in which something exists or lives: "the
country--the flat agricultural surround" [syn: {environs},
{surroundings}, {surround}]
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