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# surrounding

noun

«surrounding» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

105 uses in 81 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 104 of 105. By the class of the article: city 40, agglomeration 18, country 11, university 6. Most often with: «area», «city», «region», «town», «community».

### Examples

- During the Fascist era, part of the surrounding marshes were reclaimed and the suburbs of Fertilia and S.M. — [Alghero](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alghero), sentence 25 («wiki:Alghero:25»)
- Amberg has 25 sub-districts, which include its surrounding villages: — [Amberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amberg), sentence 34 («wiki:Amberg:34»)
- Much of the forests in the surrounding area were cleared for farmland, which was mainly dedicated to Tobacco Farming. — [Apex, North Carolina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex,_North_Carolina), sentence 7 («wiki:Apex,\_North\_Carolina:7»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Alghero»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alghero), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Amberg»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amberg), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Apex, North Carolina»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apex,_North_Carolina), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.