Background and Surroundings

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Background noun - The physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewed.

Usage example: they got married on a mountain top with the sunset as background

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Surroundings is a synonym for background in surrounding topic. In some cases you can use "Surroundings" instead a noun "Background".

Surroundings noun - The circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded.

Usage example: we relaxed and forgot our worries for a while in the plush surroundings of the hotel

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Background is a synonym for surroundings in environment topic. You can use "Background" instead a noun "Surroundings".

rich	rich background	rich surroundings
humble	humble background	humble surroundings
original	original background	original surroundings
many	many background	many surroundings
Other adjectives: proper, simple, abusive, bright, actual, entire, social, interesting, new, cultural, red.

This program converts any written text into Zalgo Text, which adds scrambled symbols to the background and surroundings of the sentence.

Source: Matrix Raining Code
Because of the importance of listening to your surroundings, the Thief games tended to avoid background music of any sort, until they wanted to make you jump out of your skin.

Source: Variable Mix
You then wave the 3DS around, while viewing your actual surroundings as the background through the video camera, and shoot their face.

Source: Video Game / Face Raiders

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