environment

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun the totality of surrounding conditions
  2. noun the area in which something exists or lives

Etymology

From Middle French environnement. Compare French environnement. By surface analysis, environ + -ment.

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