Milieu Definition

mĭl-yo͝o, mē-lyœ
milieus, milieux
noun
milieus
An environment; esp., a social or cultural setting.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Milieu

Noun

Singular:
milieu
Plural:
milieus, milieux

Origin of Milieu

  • French from Old French center mi middle (from Latin medius medhyo- in Indo-European roots) lieu place (from Latin locus)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French milieu.

    From Wiktionary

Milieu Sentence Examples

  • The dominating milieu in which we live is a technical artifice.

  • But little by little he succumbed to his milieu, the atmosphere of false confidence and passivity created around him by Alexeiev.

  • The semi-Asiatic kingdom of Astrakhan, where the whole atmosphere was predatory and nine-tenths of the population were nomadic, was the natural milieu for such a rebellion as Stenka Razin's.

  • Dora Scott was born in 1885, and grew up amidst the Scott family's literary and artistic milieu.

  • The coins, of course, are adduced on the other side, being not only Greek in type and legend, but (in many cases) of a peculiarly fine and vigorous execution; and excellence in one branch of art is thought to imply that other branches flourished in the same milieu.

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Words Starting With

MMIMIL

Words Ending With

UEUIEU

Unscrambles

milieu

Words Starting With M and Ending With U

Starts With M & Ends With UStarts With MI & Ends With UStarts With M & Ends With EU

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With M6 Letter Words Ending With U