• IPA: /ɪnˈvaɪ.ɹən/, /ɛnˈvaɪ.ɹən/

environ (plural environs)

1. (especially in plural) A surrounding area

environ (environs, present participle environing; past and past participle environed)

1. To surround; to encircle.
   • 1673, John Milton, “I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs”:

     I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs

     By the known rules of antient libertie,

     When strait a barbarous noise environs me

     Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs.

   • Dwelling in a pleasant glade, / With mountains round about environed.

   • c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i]:

     Environed he was with many foes.

   • Environ me with darkness whilst I write.

• environment