environs : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: environs	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for environs
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
environs n the area in which something exists or lives; "the country-- the flat agricultural surround" Synonym(s): environment, environs, surroundings, surround an outer adjacent area of any place Synonym(s): environs, purlieu
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Environs \Envi"rons\ (?; 277), n. pl. [F.] The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs* of a city or town. --Chesterfield.