surrounding

In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: CC 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, sentence 25 («wiki:Alghero:25»)
• Amberg has 25 sub-districts, which include its surrounding villages: — 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, 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», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0.
• From Wikipedia, «Amberg», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0.
• From Wikipedia, «Apex, North Carolina», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.