A surrounding area or place (especially of an urban settlement); an environment.
To cover, enclose, or envelop (someone or something).
To encircle or surround (someone or something).
Of a person: to be positioned or stationed around (someone or something) to attend to or protect them.
To encircle or surround (someone or something) so as to attack from all sides; to beset.
Of a situation or state of affairs, especially danger or trouble: to happen to and affect (someone or something).
Followed by from: to hide or shield (someone or something).
A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.
One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
A fellow human being.
To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
To associate intimately with; to be close to.
To be adjacent to