0 the area surrounding a place, especially a town --
1 the area surrounding a place, esp. a town --
They have little experience of any place other than the village and its environs, and so their usage does not seem to correlate with extensive travel.
The underlying assumption was that a harmful act done against the physical environs is not punishable in and of itself; rather, the criminality lies in the deaths of villagers.
By most accounts these draftees and volunteers were quite anxious to escape the rotting remains of former battlefronts and to return to the coveted comfort of their familial environs.
A very large number of settlement refugees are involved in day wage labour, and this takes most of them out into the environs of the settlement on a regular basis.
Regional trade united the city to its rural environs, increasing demand for domestic manufacturers and paper money, and enlivening colonial discussions of the potential for commercial autonomy and self-regulation.
By 1991 clashes between rival youth gangs frequently took place in the environs of the school.
The rulers however did not live here permanently but in seasonal palaces in the environs of the city.
It is a sonic footprint of the outdoors and indoors, the mesmerising or intruding voice of the immediate environs of human activity.
