surround meaning
EN
[səˈɹaʊnd] [-aʊnd] 
US - NounPLsurroundsPREsur-
- VerbSGsurroundsPRsurroundingPT, PPsurrounded
- VT To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
- The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
- VT To enclose or confine something on all sides so as to prevent escape.
- VT OBS To pass around; to travel about; to circumnavigate.
- to surround the world
- VT To encircle something or simultaneously extend in all directions.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The buccal wall is near its base surrounded by a vestigial ectocingulid, which ends mesially in a tiny tuberculid.
- She was sleeping very badly these days, what with the new baby and all the activity surrounding him.
- According to the process that may have formed the Solar System planets, the surrounding discs of material around the gas giants gradually coalesced into moons.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- It was an informative guide to the city and surrounds.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of surround in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
- en surrounded
- en surrounding
- en surroundings
- en surrounds
- en surrounder
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "surround" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.