Definitions
the environmental condition
Word origin
Borrowed from French milieu (“physical or social environment; group of people with a common point of view”), from Middle French milieu, meilleu, mileu, from Old French milliu, meillieu, mileu (“middle”), from mi- (prefix meaning ‘half’) (from Latin medius (“half; middle”)) + lieu, leu (“place”) (from Latin locus (“place; spot (specific location)”)).
Used in a sentence
“The library as solely a physical space will not survive in the digital milieu. Services should be directed towards user needs and desires in the current academic climate.”
“Certain milieus are described as cosmopolitan. Typically these are artistic, intellectual and bohemian milieus, but also the world of international business and high finance, and some mafias and underworlds.”
“It's not easy to find someone whom one has mislaid for years in London, particularly if she belongs to the sort of milieu that Anna belonged to, but clearly the first thing to do is look in the telephone book.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Social setting”6 letters
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