Milieu
noun
The surroundings or environment in which a person or thing exists in.
He grew up in a military milieu.
Often appears as...
- social milieu
- cultural milieu
noun
The social context or circumstances of someone's life.
Her lifestyle creates a milieu that many envy.
Often appears as...
- economic milieu
- familial milieu
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Formal
Academic
noun
The surroundings or environment in which a person or thing exists in.
He grew up in a military milieu.
Often appears as...
- social milieu
- cultural milieu
noun
The social context or circumstances of someone's life.
Her lifestyle creates a milieu that many envy.
Often appears as...
- economic milieu
- familial milieu
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Not Just Location
Milieu isn't just about physical space, but also includes the social and cultural aspects.
Despite the luxurious house, the artist's creative milieu was lacking inspiration.
Pro Tip 2/3Abstract Concept
Milieu often refers to abstract social environments, not a concrete physical space.
Her ideas were influenced by the academic milieu she was part of.
Pro Tip 3/3Broader Influence
Consider how a milieu shapes a person's behavior, beliefs, or work.
His paintings reflect the vibrant milieu of Paris in the 1920s.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Just Location
Milieu isn't just about physical space, but also includes the social and cultural aspects.
Despite the luxurious house, the artist's creative milieu was lacking inspiration.
Pro Tip 2/3Abstract Concept
Milieu often refers to abstract social environments, not a concrete physical space.
Her ideas were influenced by the academic milieu she was part of.
Pro Tip 3/3Broader Influence
Consider how a milieu shapes a person's behavior, beliefs, or work.
His paintings reflect the vibrant milieu of Paris in the 1920s.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Just Location
Milieu isn't just about physical space, but also includes the social and cultural aspects.
Despite the luxurious house, the artist's creative milieu was lacking inspiration.
Pro Tip 2/3Abstract Concept
Milieu often refers to abstract social environments, not a concrete physical space.
Her ideas were influenced by the academic milieu she was part of.
Pro Tip 3/3Broader Influence
Consider how a milieu shapes a person's behavior, beliefs, or work.
His paintings reflect the vibrant milieu of Paris in the 1920s.
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Mustafa Akyol: Faith...
and milieu in the Middle Ages. Now we're living in a different world, with different values and political systems." That interpretation is quite possible and feasible. Now, if I were the only person thinking that way, we would be in trouble. But that's not the case at all.
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The power of introverts...
milieu so I prepared for moments like these as best I could I spent the last year practicing public speaking every chance I could get and I called this my year of speaking dangerously and that actually helped a lot but I'll tell you
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Mustafa Akyol: Faith...
and milieu in the Middle Ages. Now we're living in a different world, with different values and political systems." That interpretation is quite possible and feasible. Now, if I were the only person thinking that way, we would be in trouble. But that's not the case at all.
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The power of introverts...
milieu so I prepared for moments like these as best I could I spent the last year practicing public speaking every chance I could get and I called this my year of speaking dangerously and that actually helped a lot but I'll tell you
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Tyler Cowen
American Economist
Economics evolved as a more moral and more egalitarian approach to policy than prevailed in its surrounding milieu. Let's cherish and extend that heritage. The real contributions of economics to human welfare might turn out to be very different from what most people - even most economists - expect.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
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Haniel Long
American Author
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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Kurt Busiek
American Writer
At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.
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Joy Mathew
Indian Actor
The film has been titled 'Uncle,' and will revolve around a family, like 'Shutter.' The social and political milieu of Kerala is of much importance in the movie and it's about an unusual situation a family is made to face.
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Paul Hawken
American Environmentalist
The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change.
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Talcott Parsons
American Sociologist
Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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Rebecca Miller
American Director
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.
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Tom Burke
Sometimes people hide behind a kind of naturalistic milieu. But life is full of the most sharp, abrupt changes of tone, from the tragic to the absurd.
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Ayushmann Khurrana
Indian Actor
Life is the biggest workshop: you have to observe life. You have to be one with the milieu more than anything else.
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Tyler Cowen
American Economist
Economics evolved as a more moral and more egalitarian approach to policy than prevailed in its surrounding milieu. Let's cherish and extend that heritage. The real contributions of economics to human welfare might turn out to be very different from what most people - even most economists - expect.
Quote examples
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
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Haniel Long
American Author
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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Kurt Busiek
American Writer
At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.
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Joy Mathew
Indian Actor
The film has been titled 'Uncle,' and will revolve around a family, like 'Shutter.' The social and political milieu of Kerala is of much importance in the movie and it's about an unusual situation a family is made to face.
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Paul Hawken
American Environmentalist
The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change.
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Talcott Parsons
American Sociologist
Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.
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Rebecca Miller
American Director
Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly.
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Tom Burke
Sometimes people hide behind a kind of naturalistic milieu. But life is full of the most sharp, abrupt changes of tone, from the tragic to the absurd.
Quote examples
Ayushmann Khurrana
Indian Actor
Life is the biggest workshop: you have to observe life. You have to be one with the milieu more than anything else.
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