Milieu

Quick meaning: Milieu is a noun meaning An environment or setting; a medium; environs.

Meaning

An environment or setting; a medium; environs.

More Meanings

1. (specifically) A social environment or setting.
2. A group of people with a common point of view; a social class or group.

Example Sentences

The library as solely a physical space will not survive in the digital milieu. Services should be directed towards user needs and desires in the current academic climate.

Certain milieus are described as cosmopolitan. Typically these are artistic, intellectual and bohemian milieus, but also the world of international business and high finance, and some mafias and underworlds.

In the electronic milieu, accuracy is accomplished by the technology, and the appropriate strategy for judgment is likely to entail ensuring coherence within and across electronic and naturalistic components of the ecology.

Australian cinema is a messy affair. It is a messiness not only in our ways of knowing, reading, consuming and producing films and the larger film-making milieu of which they are a part, but also a messiness among the films themselves […]

Word Forms

• milieux
• milieus

Synonyms for milieu

Depending on context, synonyms include surroundings.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include surroundings, environment, ambience, medium, landscape, context.

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