Word Meanings - ENVIRONS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENVIRONS)

• Outskirts
• Border
• outpost
• purlieu
• environs
• precincts
• Precinct
• Precincts
• Purlieus
• limit
• bounds
• boundary
• confine
• district
• Suburbs
• purlieus
• outskirts
• confines

Related words: (words related to ENVIRONS)

• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• PURLIEU
  puralée, poralée (equiv. to LL. perambulatio a survey of boundaries, originally, a going through); por (L. pro, confused, however, with L. 1. Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest,
• LIMITARY
  1. Placed at the limit, as a guard. "Proud limitary cherub." Milton. 2. Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.
• ENVIRONS
  The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.
• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• LIMITANEOUS
  Of or pertaining to a limit.
• CONFINELESS
  Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
• PRECINCT
  praecinctum, to gird about, to encompass; prae before + cingere to 1. The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority; -- often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state. "The precincts
• LIMITATE
  Bounded by a distinct line.
• CONFINE
  To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of
• CONFINEMENT
  1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
• LIMITOUR
  See 2
• LIMITEDNESS
  The quality of being limited.
• LIMITATION
  1. The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council. They had no right to mistake the limitation . . . of their own faculties, for an inherent limitation of the possible
• LIMITED
  Confined within limits; narrow; circumscribed; restricted; as, our views of nature are very limited. Limited company, a company in which the liability of each shareholder is limited by the number of shares he has taken, so that he can not be called
• BORDEREAU
  A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.
• BORDER
  bord a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board in sense 8. See Board, n., 1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Upon the borders
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• PRELIMIT
  To limit previously.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• OUTBOUNDS
  The farthest or exterior bounds; extreme limits; boundaries. Spenser.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.