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circumambient

[ sur-kuhm-am-bee-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. encompassing; surrounding; enveloping:

    circumambient gloom.



circumambient

/ ˌɜːəˈæɪəԳ /

adjective

  1. surrounding
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Derived Forms

  • ˌܳˈԳ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • cܳ·b·Գ cܳ·b·· noun
  • cܳ·b·Գ· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of circumambient1

First recorded in 1625–35; from Late Latin circumambient- (stem of ܳŧԲ ); circum-, ambient
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of circumambient1

C17: from Late Latin ܳī, from circum- + ī to go round
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With it, we reduce the huge circumambient room for error to a manageable somatic circumference.

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Sometimes the sounds are circumambient.

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There is a lot of circumambient madness that the captions help pin down.

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The moment of highest insanity would probably have been around the "Circumambient" period.

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Along they went, sometimes abreast, sometimes in single file, up the little paths, and down the little paths, and in among the bushes and out along the edge above the beach, and Kipps went along trying ever and again to get an insignificant word in edgeways, and the gestures of Chitterlow flew wide and far and his great voice rose and fell, and he said this and he said that and he biffed and banged into the circumambient Inane.

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