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milieu

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mi·lieu  (ml-y, m-ly)
n. pl. mi·lieus or mi·lieux (-ly)
An environment or a setting.

[French, from Old French, center : mi, middle (from Latin medius; see medhyo- in Indo-European roots) + lieu, place (from Latin locus).]

milieu [meal-yuh, meal-yuhz]
Noun
pl milieux or milieus the social and cultural environment in which a person or thing exists: the film takes for its milieu an apparently wholesome small town [French]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.milieumilieu - the environmental condition
environment - the totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room"

milieu
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Spanish milieu [ˈmiːljəː] n(medio) ambiente m; entorno
French milieu [ˈmiːljəː] nmilieu m
German milieu [ˈmiːljəː] nMilieu nt
Italian milieu [ˈmiːljəː] nambiente m

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The mysterious green light was in itself a milieu of horror.
I had the more frequent recourse to champagne in that I constantly felt depressed and bored, owing to the fact that I was living in the most bourgeois commercial milieu imaginable--a milieu wherein every sou was counted and grudged.
I don't know that the arts have a milieu here, any of them; they're more like a very thinly settled outskirt.
 
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