Hypertext Webster Gateway: "environs"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Environs \En*vi"rons\ (?; 277), n. pl. [F.]
The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in
its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or
town. --Chesterfield.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
environs
n : the area in which something exists or lives: "the
country--the flat agricultural surround" [syn: {environment},
{surroundings}, {surround}]
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