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[ mil-yoo, meel-; French mee-lyœ ] / mɪlˈyʊ, mil-; French miˈlyœ / SEE SYNONYMS FOR milieu ON THESAURUS.COM
noun, plural mi·lieus, French mi·lieux [mee-lyœ]. /miˈlyœ/. surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature: a snobbish milieu. Origin of milieuFirst recorded in 1795–1805; from French, equivalent to mi (from Latin medius “middle”; see medium) + lieu lieu SYNONYMS FOR milieubackground, sphere, setting. SEE SYNONYMS FOR milieu ON THESAURUS.COM synonym study for milieuSee environment. Words nearby milieumiliary abscess, miliary embolism, miliary fever, miliary tuberculosis, Milicent, milieu, milieu therapy, milit., militant, Militant Tendency, militaria Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for milieuAbove all, artists deserve a milieu in which musical talent is celebrated and given some acknowledgement in the media. Music Criticism Has Degenerated Into Lifestyle Reporting|Ted Gioia|March 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST She deems her work “craft with modern techniques” and has been welcomed into the milieu despite an unconventional approach. The New Queens of Haute Couture|Sarah Moroz|January 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST Instead he describes the milieu in which the works were created and received. Best Year Ever: How 1922 Birthed Modernism|Mark Braude|September 14, 2013|DAILY BEAST That was the milieu he came from: the paid-by-the-word grind of the hack writer. Elmore Leonard Was the Cool King of Crime Fiction|Malcolm Jones|August 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The two shows are so similar—premise, tone, characters, milieu—that comparisons are inevitable. ‘Low Winter Sun’ Might Be the New ‘Wire’|Andrew Romano|August 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST Elle se tenait au milieu de la porte, un peu de ct, avec le visage tourn vers moi. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death|Frederick W. H. Myers Other botanists—French, German, and English—have also been led to believe in the direct influence of the milieu, or environment. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution|Alpheus Spring Packard Comme il se couchait de trs bonne heure, il lui arrivait de s'veiller au milieu de la nuit. On the Zone, the Spanish labourer works in order to save and to depart, the milieu being foreign to him and unattractive. The Panama Canal and its Makers|Vaughan Cornish No playwright is more joyously observant than Mr. Jones; and none observes more accurately, in the milieu that he has chosen. Dolly Reforming Herself|Henry Arthur Jones
British Dictionary definitions for milieu/ (ˈmiːljɜː, French miljø) /
noun plural -lieux (-ljɜː, -ljɜːz, French -ljø) or -lieussurroundings, location, or setting Word Origin for milieuC19: from French, from mi- mid 1 + lieu place Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to milieuambience, surroundings, climate, medium, neighborhood, space, locale, scene, element, sphere, setting, place, location, background, turf, bag, ambient, nabe, mise en scène Medical definitions for milieu
n. pl. mi•lieus The totality of one's surroundings; an environment. The social setting of a mental patient. The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |