Noun

• S: (n) environment, environs, surroundings, surround (the area in which something exists or lives) "the country--the flat agricultural surround"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form

Verb

• S: (v) surround, environ, ring, skirt, border (extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle) "The forest surrounds my property"
• S: (v) smother, surround (envelop completely) "smother the meat in gravy"
• S: (v) besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent (surround so as to force to give up) "The Turks besieged Vienna"
• S: (v) wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround (surround with a wall in order to fortify)