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Definition of milieu noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

milieu

noun

NAmE//mɪlˈyu//

[countable, usually singular] (pl. milieus or milieux

NAmE//milˈyʊz//

, NAmE//milˈyuz//

, NAmE//mɪlˈyʊz//

, NAmE//mɪlˈyuz//

) (from French) (formal)

the social environment that you live or work in synonym background The findings of the report refer to a particular social and cultural milieu.

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