MILIEUS Synonyms
There are 15 hypernyms of the word milieus. (close relations)
milieu
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| surroundings | nounn | |||||
noun • the environmental condition • the area in which something exists or lives | ||||||
| ambience | nounn | |||||
noun • a particular environment or surrounding influence • the atmosphere of an environment | ||||||
| atmosphere | nounn | |||||
noun • a particular environment or surrounding influence • a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade • the mass of air surrounding the Earth • the weather or climate at some place • the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body • a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing | ||||||
| background | nounn | |||||
noun • a person's social heritage: previous experience or training • the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground • information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem • extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured • relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation • the state of the environment in which a situation exists • (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear • scenery hung at back of stage verb • understate the importance or quality of | ||||||
| context | nounn | |||||
noun • discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation • the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | ||||||
| domain | nounn | |||||
noun • a particular environment or walk of life • territory over which rule or control is exercised • (mathematics) the set of values of the independent variable for which a function is defined • people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest • the content of a particular field of knowledge | ||||||
| environment | nounn | |||||
noun • the totality of surrounding conditions • the area in which something exists or lives | ||||||
| habitat | nounn | |||||
noun • the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs | ||||||
| realm | nounn | |||||
noun • a domain in which something is dominant • the domain ruled by a king or queen • a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about | ||||||
| setting | nounn | |||||
noun • the context and environment in which something is set • the state of the environment in which a situation exists • arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted • the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event • the physical position of something • a table service for one person • a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place | ||||||
| sphere | nounn | |||||
noun • a particular environment or walk of life • any spherically shaped artifact • the geographical area in which one nation is very influential • a particular aspect of life or activity • a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses) • a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center • the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected | ||||||
| territory | nounn | |||||
noun • a region marked off for administrative or other purposes • an area of knowledge or interest • the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state | ||||||
| world | nounn | |||||
noun • everything that exists anywhere • people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest • all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you • the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on • people in general considered as a whole • a part of the earth that can be considered separately • the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife • all of the living human inhabitants of the earth adjective satellite • involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope | ||||||
