milieu
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noun, plural mi·lieus French, mi·lieux [-lyœ] .
[-lyœ] . surroundings, especially of a social or cultural nature: a snobbish milieu.
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| —n , pl -lieux, -lieus | |
| surroundings, location, or setting | |
| [C19: from French, from mi- | |
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Milieu
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Word Origin & History
milieu
"surroundings," 1877, from Fr., "middle, medium, mean," lit. "middle place," from mi "middle" + lieu "place" (see lieu).
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Medical Dictionary
milieu mi·lieu (mĭl-y&oobreve;', mēl-yɶ')
n. pl. mi·lieus or mi·lieux (-lyɶ')
The totality of one's surroundings; an environment.
The social setting of a mental patient.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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milieu
according to the French critic Hippolyte Taine, the three principal motives or conditioning factors behind any work of art. Taine sought to establish a scientific approach to literature through the investigation of what created the individual who created the work of art.
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Example sentences
We are all to blame: It's a broad social failure, a cultural milieu that backfired, big time.
Such ties tend to weaken or disappear in the urban milieu.
In its attempts to suggest a milieu, the book feels underpopulated and devoid of texture.
As these works attest, even as part of a milieu, Pollock had a daring of his own.
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