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surround verb [ səˈraʊnd ]

• be all round (someone or something).
• "the hotel is surrounded by its own gardens"
Similar: neighbouring, nearby, near, neighbourhood, local, adjoining, adjacent, bordering, abutting, encircling, encompassing, circumambient, circumjacent,

surround noun

• a thing that forms a border or edging round an object.
• "an oak fireplace surround"
Similar: border, edging, edge, perimeter, boundary, margin, skirting, skirt, fringe,
Origin: 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.


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