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English
Etymology
From Middle French environnement, equivalent to environ + -ment. Compare French environnement.
Pronunciation
Noun
environment (plural environments)
- The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
- The natural world or ecosystem.
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
- All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
- A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
- (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
That program uses the Microsoft Windows environment.
- (programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.
- (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.
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Translations
area around something
- Afrikaans: omgewing (af)
- Albanian: mjedis (sq)
- Arabic: بِيئَة (ar) f (bīʔa), مُحِيط (ar) m (muḥīṭ)
- Armenian: շրջապատ (hy) (šrǰapat), միջավայր (hy) (miǰavayr)
- Azerbaijani: mühit (az), şərait (az)
- Bashkir: тирә-яҡ (tirə-yaq), әйләнә-тирә (əylənə-tirə), ара (ara)
- Belarusian: асяро́ддзе n (asjaróddzje)
- Bikol Central: palibot (bcl)
- Bulgarian: окръже́ние n (okrǎžénie), среда́ (bg) f (sredá)
- Catalan: medi (ca) m, ambient (ca) m, entorn (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 環境／环境 (zh) (huánjìng)
- Czech: prostředí (cs) n, okolí (cs) n
- Danish: miljø n, omgivelser c pl
- Dutch: omgeving (nl) c
- Esperanto: ĉirkaŭaĵo
- Estonian: keskkond
- Finnish: ympäristö (fi)
- French: environnement (fr) m
- Galician: ambiente (gl) m
- Georgian: გარემო (garemo), გარემოცვა (garemocva), გარესამყარო (garesamq̇aro)
- German: Umgebung (de) f, Umwelt (de) f
- Greek: περιβάλλον (el) n (perivállon)
- Haitian Creole: anviwònman
- Hebrew: סְבִיבָה (he) f (s'vivá)
- Hindi: पर्यावरण m (paryāvraṇ)
- Hungarian: környezet (hu), környék (hu)
- Icelandic: umhverfi (is) n
- Indonesian: lingkungan (id)
- Irish: timpeallacht f
- Italian: ambiente (it) m
- Japanese: 環境 (ja) (かんきょう, kankyō)
- Kazakh: айнала (ainala), орта (orta)
- Korean: 환경(環境) (ko) (hwan'gyeong)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: hawir (ku) f, hawirdor (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: чөйрө (ky) (cöyrö)
- Latvian: vide f
- Lithuanian: aplinka (lt) f
- Macedonian: средина f (sredina)
- Malay: persekitaran
- Maori: taiao
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: miljø (no) n
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: مُحیط (fa) (mohit), پیرامون (fa) (pirâmun)
- Polish: środowisko (pl) n
- Portuguese: meio (pt) m, ambiente (pt) m, arredores (pt) pl
- Romanian: mediu (ro) n, ambient (ro) n, mediu ambiant n
- Russian: среда́ (ru) f (sredá), окружа́ющая среда́ (ru) f (okružájuščaja sredá), окруже́ние (ru) n (okružénije)
- Sanskrit: अम्बर (sa) n (ambara)
- Scottish Gaelic: àrainneachd f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̀колина f, окруже́ње n
- Roman: òkolina (sh) f, okružénje (sh) n
- Slovak: prostredie n
- Slovene: okolje (sl) n, okolica f
- Spanish: ambiente (es), medio (es), entorno (es)
- Swahili: mazingira (sw) class ma
- Swedish: miljö (sv) c, natur (sv) c, omgivning (sv) c
- Tajik: муҳит (muhit)
- Tatar: мохит (tt) (moxit)
- Telugu: పర్యావరణం (te) (paryāvaraṇaṁ)
- Turkish: çevre (tr)
- Ukrainian: середо́вище (uk) n (seredóvyšče)
- Urdu: ماحَول m (māhaul)
- Uyghur: مۇھىت (muhit)
- Uzbek: muhit (uz)
- Vietnamese: môi trường (vi)
- Yiddish: סבֿיבֿה f (svive)
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natural world or ecosystem
- Afrikaans: omgewing (af)
- Albanian: mjedis (sq)
- Arabic: بِيئَة (ar) f (bīʔa)
- Armenian: շրջակա միջավայր (hy) (šrǰaka miǰavayr)
- Azerbaijani: ətraf mühit
- Bashkir: тирә-яҡ мөхит (tirə-yaq möxit)
- Belarusian: навако́льнае асяро́ддзе n (navakólʹnaje asjaróddzje)
- Bulgarian: око́лна среда́ f (okólna sredá)
- Burmese: ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် (my) (pat-wan:kyang)
- Catalan: medi ambient (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 環境／环境 (waan4 ging2)
- Hokkien: 環境／环境 (zh-min-nan) (khôan-kéng)
- Mandarin: 環境／环境 (zh) (huánjìng)
- Czech: životní prostředí (cs) n
- Danish: miljø n
- Dutch: milieu (nl) n
- Esperanto: medio (eo)
- Estonian: keskkond, elukeskkond
- Finnish: ympäristö (fi)
- French: environnement (fr) m
- Galician: medio ambiente (gl) m
- Georgian: გარემო (garemo)
- German: Umwelt (de) f
- Greek: περιβάλλον (el) n (perivállon)
- Haitian Creole: anviwònman
- Hebrew: סְבִיבָה (he) f (s'vivá)
- Hindi: पर्यावरण m (paryāvraṇ), प्राकृतिक पर्यावरण m (prākŕtik paryāvraṇ)
- Hungarian: környezet (hu)
- Icelandic: umhverfi (is) n
- Indonesian: lingkungan (id)
- Italian: ambiente (it) m
- Japanese: 環境 (ja) (かんきょう, kankyō)
- Kazakh: қоршаған орта (qorşağan orta)
- Khmer: បរិស្ថាន (km) (bɑɑresthaan), មជ្ឈដ្ឋាន (km) (macchĕəʼthaan), បរិយាការ (paʼreyaakaa)
- Korean: 환경(環境) (ko) (hwan'gyeong)
- Lao: ສິ່ງແວດລ້ອມ (sing wǣt lǭm)
- Latin: circumiectum n
- Latvian: dabiska vide f
- Lithuanian: gamtinė aplinka f
- Macedonian: животна средина f (životna sredina)
- Malay: alam sekitar (ms)
- Malayalam: പരിസ്ഥിതി (ml) (paristhiti)
- Maori: aotūroa, taiao
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: پیرامون (fa) (pirâmun), مُحیطِ زیسْت (mohit-e zist)
- Polish: ekosystem (pl) m, środowisko (pl) n, środowisko przyrodnicze n
- Portuguese: meio ambiente (pt) m
- Romanian: ecosistem (ro) n, mediu ambiant n
- Russian: окружа́ющая среда́ (ru) f (okružájuščaja sredá), экосисте́ма (ru) f (ekosistéma)
- Scottish Gaelic: àrainneachd f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̀колина f, екосу́став m, природни околиш m
- Roman: òkolina (sh) f, ekosústav (sh) m, prirodni okoliš m
- Slovak: životné prostredie n
- Slovene: naravno okolje n
- Spanish: medioambiente (es), medio ambiente (es), naturaleza (es), ecosistema (es)
- Swedish: miljö (sv) c, ekosystem (sv) n
- Tajik: муҳити зист (muhiti zist)
- Thai: สิ่งแวดล้อม (th) (sìng-wɛ̂ɛt-lɔ́ɔm)
- Turkish: doğal çevre (tr)
- Ukrainian: навко́лишнє середо́вище (uk) n (navkólyšnje seredóvyšče), довкі́лля n (dovkíllja)
- Urdu: ماحَول m (māhaul), قُدْرَتی ماحَول m (qudratī māhaul)
- Vietnamese: môi trường (vi), môi sinh, môi trường sống
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political or social setting, arena or condition
software or hardware on a computer
References
- “environment”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- environment in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “environment”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “environment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Slovak
Pronunciation
Noun
environment m inan (declension pattern of dub)
- environment
- Synonym: prostredie
Declension
Declension of environment
Related terms
Further reading
- “environment”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
