surround

Meanings

1. To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
2. To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
3. To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.

1. Anything, such as a fence or border, that surrounds something.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super- Latin unda Latin undō Late Latin superundōder. Middle French souronderbor. Middle English sourrounden English surround From Middle English sourrounden (“to submerge, overflow”), from Middle French souronder, suronder, from Late Latin superundō, from super + undō (“to rise in waves”), from unda (“wave”).