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/ɪnvˈaɪrənmənt/ Listen

noun

Environment n.

Act of environing; state of being environed.

That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development. "It is no friendly environment, this of thine."

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Etymology of 'Environment'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Environment" Quotes from Famous Books

... they clambered into the car of the air-ship and with Frank at the wheel and the old Krooman at his elbow to direct the course they were to take, they left the ground and were soon flying through a breathless environment at ...

— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton

... sky shall you find it? The more solitary the recluse and the more confirmed and grounded his seclusion, the wider and more familiar becomes the circle of his social environment, until at length, like a very dryad of old, the birds build and sing in his branches and the "wee wild beasties" nest in his pockets. If he fails to be aware of the fact, more's the pity. His desolation ...

— My Studio Neighbors • William Hamilton Gibson

... power of selection—might we not say discrimination? That little seed can never by any power of persuasion or environment be made to produce grass or any other kind of a tree, as manzanita, mango, banyan, catalpa, etc., but ...

— Among the Forces • Henry White Warren

... material basis. Visits to a tomb or grave are unfortunate, not alone because they renew grief through thinking upon it and thus cause great distress to those for whom we mourn, but also because the environment of a cemetery is one of the worst possible for the sorrowing. It is a dismal park of concentrated griefs where each mourner accentuates the emotional distress of all others. There is but one sensible attitude to take toward those we have lost by death—to think of them as living a joyous, ...

— Elementary Theosophy • L. W. Rogers

... Lilla, in this environment, became a juvenile epicurean, precocious in aesthetic judgment, intolerant of everything that was not exquisite. Her opinions amused and touched her aunt, who, for a while, derived from that imitation ...

— Sacrifice • Stephen French Whitman

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