MILIEU


Meaning of MILIEU in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

social

He examines why certain individuals can not easily accept the ways of thinking and behaving that their social milieu thrusts upon them.

Also, Tish often felt intimidated in the social milieu that she found herself thrust into at such a young age.

Dialogue springs with life from the page, and the social and political milieu of a vanished age is brilliantly realised.

The Grotonian reflected not only the school itself but the social milieu that sent its sons there.

The area provides a social milieu that reinforces that awareness.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Lester lives and works in an academic milieu .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And in fact, the isolation and weakness of the radical milieu put a premium upon commitment to an unqualified Utopia.

In such cases, neighbourhood rather than milieu may have brought people together.

None of his eighteen novels takes place in a Catholic milieu .

Our specific role in the political milieu is to upset the apple cart, which is precisely what happened in Florida.

The Grotonian reflected not only the school itself but the social milieu that sent its sons there.

Up until the civil rights movement of the 1960s, they tended to marry only those from their own class and milieu .

Will seems to thrive in the hard-driving, mind-altering milieu of rock and soul.

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