environment > define

noun

• The totality of surrounding conditions.
  • usage: "he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room"
• The area in which something exists or lives.
  • usage: "the country-the flat agricultural surround"
  • synonyms: environs, surroundings, surround

• (n.) That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.
• (n.) Act of environing; state of being environed.