SURROUNDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does surrounded mean? 

• SURROUNDED (adjective)
  The adjective SURROUNDED has 1 sense:

1. confined on all sides

  Familiarity information: SURROUNDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURROUNDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Confined on all sides

Synonyms:

encircled; surrounded

Context example:

the encircled pioneers

Similar:

enclosed (closed in or surrounded or included within)

 Context examples 

A closed structure surrounded by a single membrane.

(Cellular Vesicle, NCI Thesaurus)

Confined to a specific, localized area and surrounded by a thin layer of tissue.

(Encapsulated, NCI Dictionary)

It consists of modified macrophages with multinucleated giant cells, in this case foreign-body giant cells (GIANT CELLS, FOREIGN-BODY), usually surrounded by lymphocytes.

(Foreign Body Granuloma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

At the heart of a blazar lies a supersized black hole with millions of times the sun's mass surrounded by a disk of hot gas and dust.

(WISE, Fermi Missions Reveal a Surprising Blazar Connection, NASA)

And though I had been surrounded by women all my days, my appreciation of them had been æsthetic and nothing more.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The ovarian follicle is the basic functional unit of the ovary, which contains the egg surrounded by two distinct cell types, known as granulosa cells and theca cells.

(Study solves ovarian cell mystery, shedding new light on reproductive disorders, NIH)

An adenomyoma that arises from the cervix and is characterized by the presence of endometrial type glands and endometrial stroma, surrounded by smooth muscle.

(Cervical Adenomyoma, Endometrial Type, NCI Thesaurus)

Warm Neptunes are thought to have either rocky or liquid cores, surrounded by gas.

(Helium-Shrouded Planets May Be Common in Our Galaxy, NASA)

A cystic lesion with a central keratin mass which is surrounded by squamous epithelium.

(Cystic Keratinizing Epithelioma, NCI Thesaurus)

A benign cystic epithelial neoplasm featuring a central keratin mass surrounded by squamous epithelium.

(Cystic Keratinizing Epithelioma, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)