surround
Meaning of surround
- be all round (someone or something).
the hotel is surrounded by its own gardens
he loves to surround himself with family and friends
- a thing that forms a border or edging round an object.
an oak fireplace surround
late Middle English (in the sense ‘overflow’): from Old French souronder, from late Latin superundare, from super- ‘over’ + undare ‘to flow’ (from unda ‘a wave’); later associated with round. Current senses of the noun date from the late 19th century.
Information about surround
- The plural form of surround is: surrounds.
- Languages in which surround is used:
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Hyphenation of surround
sur-round
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- surround is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
surround synonyms
Meaning environment:
environment, environs, surroundings
Meaning environ:
environ, encircle, circle, round, ring
Meaning skirt:
Meaning smother:
Meaning besiege:
besiege, beleaguer, circumvent
Meaning wall:
Meaning not far away; close:
Meaning come near to; approach:
Meaning a district or community within a town or city:
Meaning relating or restricted to a particular area or one's neighbourhood:
Meaning (of a building, room, or piece of land) next to or joined with:
Meaning next to or adjoining something else:
Meaning form an edge along or beside (something):
Meaning (of a building or an area of land) be next to or have a common boundary with:
Meaning form a circle around; surround:
Meaning surround and have or hold within:
Meaning surrounding:
Meaning something forming an edge or border:
Meaning the outside limit of an object, area, or surface:
Meaning the continuous line forming the boundary of a closed geometrical figure:
Meaning a line which marks the limits of an area; a dividing line:
Meaning the edge or border of something:
Meaning a wooden board running along the base of an interior wall:
Meaning the border or outer edges of an area or group:
Translation of surround
- French: assiéger, entourer, encercler, cerner
- Spanish: sitiar, rodear
- German: belagern, umgeben, umschließen
- Italian: circondare, accerchiare, assediare, contornare, cingere
- Portuguese: cercar
Words that rhyme with surround
Bound, abound, airbound, barkbound, bound, brassbound, browbound, calfbound, casebound, chairbound, clothbound, coabound, creedbound, cropbound, deskbound, disbound, downbound, earthbound, eastbound, embound, fogbound, frostbound, handbound, hardbound, hidebound, homebound, hoofbound, housebound, icebound, inbound, ironbound, mawbound, mibound, misbound, musclebound, northbound, outbound, outrebound, overabound, overbound, paperbound, potbound, prebound, rainbound, rbound, rebound, rockbound, rootbound, seabound, shellbound