milieux
- noun
- /mɪlˈju/
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milieus
- A patron and his or her clients occupy different milieux, each with its own practices and its distinctive experience of the world.
- social and cultural milieux
I think it has to do with the cultural milieu that this is unfolding in.
- I think it has to do with the cultural milieu that this is unfolding in.
- Perfect milieu, to use a fancy word.
- He was not steeped in the whole, you know, milieu of theoretical physics for a long time.
- But he wasn't considered part of the Democratic Party milieu.
- And once people realize, wait a second, this milieu that I live in, that seems to be the truth.
- And I also, and I'm, I'm think this is also true for native New Yorker kids who were within that milieu.
- So I'd walk into a room and I would get instant approval and then rewarded every time I showed up in the Vince milieu.
- Well, it's about a person in his or her milieu in engagement with other persons within a kind of history.
- And even now, meeting new people and my new milieu is so special.
- So it was a very idea provoking milieu to grow up in.
- It's another thing to get back into that milieu when all of those smells and emotions and sounds.
- But I think this is a series that that particularly took off in that that milieu, right.
- But so it wasn't unfamiliar milieu for me, but I always was interested in design.
- I was captivated, too, by the dense parfait of class and race and age and sexual milieu.
- So I do think that there is there, there are two very different cultural milieu here.
- And that's the the kind of milieu I'm always on the lookout for where there's petty resentments that you can take care of.
- And given the milieu of what's happened in Hollywood now, where things are like very trepidation, nobody's spending money, nobody's buying any.
Examples
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In many respects, the Bible represents or expresses a basic discontent with the larger cultural milieu in which it was produced.
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To a far greater extent than in the American milieux in which I customarily moved, I was watchfully self-aware of what I said in the Senior Room and the Hall of the College, and of how and when I said it.
Academic text (1999) -
And even now, meeting new people and my new milieu is so special.
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These are all things that are in the milieu right now.
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And once people realize, wait a second, this milieu that I live in, that seems to be the truth.
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Most of the literature makes general statements about this vast culture area or is centered on local folk milieux.
Academic text (1997) -
I think it has to do with the cultural milieu that this is unfolding in.
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And I'm Jewish, and being Jewish in the milieu that I was in, it was unusual.
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Yet, the willingness of professors to take decisive action is impeded by the psychological, social, and cultural milieux in which professors work.
Academic text (2003) -
In urban milieux, social interactions are often influenced by cultural diversity.
Synonyms
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2.8
A group of people who live in the same area, like a neighborhood
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1.8
An area in a town or city where people live near each other
How Social
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word milieux is the plural of milieu, made from mi 'middle' and lieu 'place'. So a social milieux is like a 'middle place' — the cultural or social setting where people meet and act, which explains its modern use for social environments.