Milieu Synonyms

mĭl-yo͝o, mē-lyœ
The totality of surrounding conditions and circumstances affecting growth or development
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. surroundings
  2. atmosphere
  3. climate
  4. environment
  5. ambiance
  6. ambience
  7. medium
  8. mise en scène
  9. scene
  10. world
  11. setting

Words Related to Milieu

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. be
  2. limited
  3. place
  4. subculture
  5. intellectual-climate
  6. milieux
  7. social-relations
  8. world-view

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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