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Definition of "milieu" []

  • An environment or a setting. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "milieu" in a sentence
  • "The heroes are mostly antiheroic, and the milieu is more frenetic than credible, but it's no surprise that this novel is a 2008 Hugo Award nominee."
  • "Yes, she operated in the old major label milieu, but her stuff was way more daring and imaginative and far less dogmatic than most hipster acts."
  • "Milljöh, which renders the French word milieu into the Berlin dialect, became a half-mocking, half-affectionate term used all over Germany to convey the desperate pluckiness of Berlin's sprawling slums."
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