Meaning & use
milieu
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A person's social environment or surroundings, especially in terms of culture or class.
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Growing up in an artistic milieu shaped her creative outlook.
The novel captures the milieu of 1920s Paris in vivid detail.
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Borrowed from French, pronounced roughly "mill-YOO," and used mainly in formal or literary writing.
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