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How to pronounce milieu in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms surroundings
Type of environment

Examples of milieu

milieu
The characters, their lives and their milieu are sharply and comically observed.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
A veteran of the French artistic milieu, he was involved with Aragon and Eluard.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
The freedom to insularize oneself within a social milieu of personal well-being.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In Rich Like Us, two women discover the corruption of their elite social milieu.
From the guardian.co.uk
The social rules of this milieu are as elusively codified as its aesthetic ones.
From the newsday.com
This milieu can include plant or animal life as well as their symbiotic partners.
From the sciencedaily.com
My students love the chance to use their social milieu as a space for learning.
From the fresnobee.com
Its smooth surface reveals the artist's milieu, but hides the mark of his hand.
From the independent.co.uk
An earlier version of this piece put an x in milieu and an extra l in Bullingdon.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • The environmental condition
  • Refers to the total care atmosphere and its surroundings with the philosophy suggesting that the total environment has the potential for becoming therapeutic or non-therapeutic for the individual experiencing it.
  • A therapeutic environment, typically used as part of inpatient psychiatric therapy.
  • Center ("faire la couture milieu dos" = sew the center back seam)
  • The internal environment of the body. Practitioners of Biological Medicine believe that most illness is the result of imbalances in the internal milieu of the body. Microorganisms, being pleo-morphic, will change according to the environment to which they are exposed. ...
  • Environment; esp., social or cultural setting "Finally, adoption agencies routinely send staff members to evaluate the child's milieu" (338).
  • A French word meaning environment