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milieu

[ mil-yoo, meel-; French mee-±ô²â²Õ ]

noun

plural milieus, French milieux
  1. surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature:

    a snobbish milieu.

    Synonyms: , ,



milieu

/ miljø; ˈmiËljÉœË /

noun

  1. surroundings, location, or setting
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of milieu1

First recorded in 1795–1805; from French, equivalent to mi (from Latin medius “m¾±»å»å±ô±ðâ€; medium ) + lieu lieu
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of milieu1

C19: from French, from mi- mid 1+ lieu place
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This is an ideal milieu for a president who cares not for facts or truth but only about his own vanity and glory.

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In his lawless milieu, the only authority that people feared was the Aryan Brotherhood, Field testified.

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The totalitarian subject thrives in a milieu of manufactured crises and engineered divisions, where cruelty becomes virtue and the lust for domination is mistaken for strength.

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The role was, in some ways, a departure from Fanning’s usual milieu.

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Fans may have assumed this was Snoop’s new milieu.

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