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

Other Word Forms of Environment

Noun

Singular:
environment
Plural:
environments

Origin of Environment

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

    From Wiktionary

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