When you are describing the place where you are at the moment, or the place where you live, you can refer to it as your surroundings. Schumacher adapted effortlessly to his new surroundings. the objects, buildings, natural things etc that are around a person or thing at a particular time sb's surroundings
The portion of matter or space outside that which is under consideration as a system
the area in which something exists or lives; "the country--the flat agricultural surround"
all parts of the universe which are not part of the system Changes, such as in enthalpy or entropy of the surroundings are the opposite of the changes to the system
the part of the world with which an organism is in contact: i e , the part which determines the reactions and physiological and sometimes even morphological adaptation of the organisms which naturally or normally live and grow there In turn, the surroundings are also modified, transformed and moulded as a result of contact with living beings