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Synonyms for environment

Grammar : Noun
Spell : en-vahy-ruhn-muhnt, -vahy-ern-
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈvaɪ rən mənt, -ˈvaɪ ərn-

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Définition of environment

Origin :
  • c.1600, "state of being environed" (see environ + -ment); sense of "nature, conditions in which a person or thing lives" first recorded 1827 (used by Carlyle to render German Umgebung); specialized ecology sense first recorded 1956.
  • noun surroundings, atmosphere
  • noun earth's system of natural resources
Example sentences :
  • They are as animals grown in an environment that demands no struggle of them.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Certain faculties develop in response to the pressure of environment.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • He will not so long correspond with an environment even so unexacting as this.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • They are victims of their elders' folly, of our carelessness as to their environment.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
  • A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • Yet even in this environment of evil we see the nobility of the man, and his real self.
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
  • It implies a pre-existing something, inwrapped as a germ in its environment.
  • Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright
  • Environment served to model the clay, to give it a particular form.
  • Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
  • It follows that any change in the environment will cause a change in the individual.
  • Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley
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