Environs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENVIRONS in dictionary:

VERB:
• ENVIRON, to envelop, enclose
• surround; enclose
PLURAL NOUN:
• surrounding area, esp of a town
NOUN:
• The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.
• the area in which something exists or lives
• an outer adjacent area of any place
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to encircle

Words related to ENVIRONS

environ10 environed13 environing14

Words that contain ENVIRONS

disenvirons15

How to use ENVIRONS in a sentence

• If you say that this was something more than defence, I claim that the only way to protect a country is to make sure of its environs.
• The traveller, therefore, who visits the environs of Montrouge can go go back in fancy without difficulty to the year 1850.
• John and his wife determined to seize the opportunity to examine the environs of the city.
• Three villages are situated in the environs, Sala, El-Kesir, and El-Ghetar.
• Perhaps he had risen early, and had gone on some excursion in the environs.
• At last, they reached the environs of Constantinople in perfect safety, and encamped without the city.
• Gulian told me that there are some three thousand slaves owned in the city and its environs.
• Every tract of land, palace, castle, farm in the environs of Arona seem to belong to them.
• The ground is curiously laid out so as to represent, as much as possible, the ground in the environs of Jerusalem.
• On the 17th of this month I embarked at Newhaven, in the environs of Edinburgh, on board the little steamer Prince Albert, for Stirling.
• I agreed, and had five days left, which I determined to spend in carefully examining Valparaiso and its environs.
• The town of Singapore and its environs contain upwards of 20,000 inhabitants.
• I examined whatever seemed worth notice in the town and its environs.
• It was completely dark when I arrived in the environs of Geneva.
• She knew that Willie could no more stay away from the environs of that camel than said camel could remain in that attic.
• Wilfred Edgerton in the hectic environs of a police court than he was qualified to take care of her.
• The appearance of their place of residence, together with its environs, was peculiarly desolate and forlorn, and it had the reputation of being haunted.
• The population of Grasse is about 12,000, and the flora of its environs represents almost all the botany of Europe.
• Petronievitch took me to see the Prince, who has got into his new residence outside the Constantinople gate, which looks like one of the villas one sees in the environs of Vienna.
• And the environs are as monotonous as the occupations.
• I encouraged this passion, and every Sunday, above all, when I knew that there would be a review, I went to fetch him, and drew him into the country, in the environs of Paris.
• There has been but little health in this city and its environs this year, with many sudden deaths, both of Spaniards and Indian natives and slaves.
• When we first examined the surface of the planet it will be remembered that we had regarded the Lake of the Sun and its environs as being the very focus of the planet.
• I think it was about two-thirty, and before light I had to be out of those environs, if ever I was to get out.
• He wanted to make a few excursions in the environs before the winter set in with its dampness and gloom.
• If the hills of Taunus constitute the environs, he will approve that location.
• Once more our men were scattered about the old city and its environs as if we had never left it.
• Necessity environs the laws that govern the Universe, 831-l.
• Next morning we visited the town and its environs, under the guidance and protection of a kavasse.
• As the Mount of Olives is the highest point in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem, it commands the best view of the town and its environs.
• Two days had still to elapse before the departure of the French steam- vessel, and I made use of this time to take a closer survey of the town and its environs.
• From our vessel we had a view over the whole town and its environs.
• Monk was perfectly well acquainted with this position, Newcastle and its environs having already more than once been his headquarters.
• I have observed the same, in my early walks and rides, in every part of this great place and its environs.
• At the appointed hour Tecumseh, supported by forty of his principal warriors, made his appearance, the remainder of his followers being encamped in the village and its environs.
• Cecile, I visited the Column Vendome, from the top of which I obtained a fine view of Paris and its environs.

Similar words containing VIRON without suffix s and without prefix en

environ10 environed13 disenviron14 environics15 environing14 disenvirons15 environment16 disenvironed17 environments17 disenvironing18 environmental18 environmentally23 environmentalis20 microenvironmen24 environmentalist21 environmentalism23 microenvironment25 environmentalists22 microenvironments26 environmentalisms24 microenvironmental27

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