environ

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. To encircle or surround (someone or something).
2. (obsolete) To encircle or surround (someone or something).
3. To encircle or surround (someone or something).
4. To cover, enclose, or envelop (someone or something).
5. Followed by from: to hide or shield (someone or something).
6. Of a person: to be positioned or stationed around (someone or something) to attend to or protect them.
7. Of a situation or state of affairs, especially danger or trouble: to happen to and affect (someone or something).
8. (obsolete) To amount to or encompass (a space).
9. (obsolete) To travel completely around (a place or thing); to circumnavigate.

Adv

1. (obsolete) In the neighbourhood; around.
2. (obsolete) Almost, nearly.

Noun

A surrounding area or place (especially of an urban settlement); an environment.

Sinonieme

surround

encompass

surroundings

skirt

ring

💍

invest

beset

encircle

enclose

gird

border

round

vest

wrap

indue

shut in

begird

environment

beleaguer

besiege

circumference

circumvent

compass

🧭

endue

enfold

environs

enwrap

perimeter

Vertalings

circondare

περικυκλώνω

umgeben

entourer

kuşatmak

etraf

rodear

muhit

attorniare

περιβάλλω

cercar

circundar

rodear

etrafını çevirmek

تماجن

Gekoppel as

en‧vir‧on

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ɪnˈvaɪɹən/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: envirounen

Verwante met Frans: environner

Verwante met Katalaans: environar

Verwante met Old French: avironer

Verwante met Middle French: avironer

Verwante met Anglo-Norman: avironer

Verwante met Spaans: environar

Geërf van Middle English: invyroun

Geërf van Middle English: enuyroun

Verwante met Frans: environ

In summary

From Middle English envirounen, enviroun (“to surround in a circle or ring, or on the perimeter; to beset, besiege; to cover, enclose, envelop; to provide a setting or surrounding to; to move in a circle; to move around the perimeter; to go, move, or wander about (a place); to fill or pervade (a place); to run all the way through”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman envirouner [and other forms], Middle French environner, and Old French environner (“to arrange in a circle; to circumnavigate, travel around; to traverse, wander around; to encircle, encompass, surround”) [and other forms] (modern French environner), from environ (adverb) (see etymology 1) + -er (suffix forming verbs).
cognates
* Catalan environar (obsolete)
* Old French avironer, avironner (Middle French avironer, avironner, Anglo-Norman avironer, aviruner)
* Spanish environar (obsolete)