Environment Definition

ĕn-vīrən-mənt, -vīərn-
environments
noun
environments
The totality of the natural world, often excluding humans.
American Heritage Medicine
A surrounding or being surrounded.
Webster's New World
Something that surrounds; surroundings.
Webster's New World
A subset of the natural world; an ecosystem.
The coastal environment.
American Heritage Medicine
All the conditions, circumstances, and influences surrounding, and affecting the development of, an organism or group of organisms.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Environment

Noun

Singular:
environment
Plural:
environments

Origin of Environment

  • As if environ + -ment; compare to French environnement.

    From Wiktionary

Environment Sentence Examples

  • The environment in the Arctic Circle is very hostile.

  • Many influences operating for a long period of time on the character and the environment of a class go to determine its standard of life.

  • The law was a win for the environment.

  • Though adaptation to the environment seems sometimes to be considered, especially by neo-Lamarckians, as equivalent to, or at least as involving, the evolution of higher forms from Jower, there does not appear to be any evidence that this is the case.

  • His father died when he was three, his mother when he was only seven, and he grew up in a brutal and degrading environment where he learnt to hold human life and human dignity in contempt.

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Words Starting With

EENENV

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With E11 Letter Words Ending With T