Umwelt
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From German Umwelt ‘environment’.
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- IPA: /ˈʊmvɛlt/
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Umwelt (plural Umwelten)
- One's surroundings or environment; the outer world as perceived by organisms within it.
- 1979: It seems that these S-E-A-Values are all about what ethnologists call the Umwelt – the area of alarm around members of the brute creation, such as human beings. — Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol (Penguin 2001, p. 256)
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Umwelt
- environment (area around something)
This German entry was created from the translations listed at environment. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see Umwelt in the German Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) April 2008
