MEANING
Situated around or surrounding a place.
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- circumjacent countryside
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The tower overlooked the circumjacent countryside.
Fires dotted the circumjacent hills.
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Primary category: setting. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a spatial or institutional classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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