MILIEU Synonyms

• a particular environment or surrounding influence

• the atmosphere of an environment

• a particular environment or surrounding influence

• a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade

• the mass of air surrounding the Earth

• the weather or climate at some place

• the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body

• a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing

• a person's social heritage: previous experience or training

• the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground

• information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

• extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

• relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation

• the state of the environment in which a situation exists

• (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear

• scenery hung at back of stage

• understate the importance or quality of

• discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation

• the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event

• the totality of surrounding conditions

• the area in which something exists or lives

• the place where some action occurs

• an incident (real or imaginary)

• the visual percept of a region

• a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film

• a situation treated as an observable object

• a subdivision of an act of a play or performance

• a display of bad temper

• graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept

• the context and environment in which something is set

• the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale

• the context and environment in which something is set

• the state of the environment in which a situation exists

• arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted

• the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event

• the physical position of something

• a table service for one person

• a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place

• a particular environment or walk of life

• any spherically shaped artifact

• the geographical area in which one nation is very influential

• a particular aspect of life or activity

• a solid figure bounded by a spherical surface (including the space it encloses)

• a three-dimensional closed surface such that every point on the surface is equidistant from the center

• the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

• everything that exists anywhere

• people in general; especially a distinctive group of people with some shared interest

• all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you

• the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on

• people in general considered as a whole

• a part of the earth that can be considered separately

• the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife

• all of the living human inhabitants of the earth

• involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope