Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Environs \En*vi"rons\ (?; 277), n. pl. [F.]
   The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in
   its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or
   town. --Chesterfield.

Source : WordNet®

environs
     n : the area in which something exists or lives; "the
         country--the flat agricultural surround" [syn: {environment},
          {surroundings}, {surround}]