medium vs surroundings

surroundings vs medium

medium and surroundings both are nouns.

medium is an adjective but surroundings is not an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
medium	Yes	Yes	No	No
surroundings	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, surroundings is a hypernym of medium; that is, surroundings is a word with a broader meaning than medium:

medium: the surrounding environment
surroundings: the area in which something exists or lives

Other hypernyms of medium include environment, environs, surround.

medium (noun)	surroundings (noun)
an occupation for which you are especially well suited	the area in which something exists or lives
an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication	the environmental condition
a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information
(usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public
the surrounding environment
someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position
(bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms
(biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed
a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter
an intervening substance through which something is achieved

medium (adjective)	surroundings (adjective)
(meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside
around the middle of a scale of evaluation

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