Umwelt
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From German Umwelt (“environment”). More at um-, Welt.
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Noun[edit]
Umwelt (plural Umwelts or Umwelten)
- One's surroundings or environment; the outer world as perceived by organisms within it.
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1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, “After You with the Pistol”, in (Please provide the title of the work):
- 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.
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1990 October 7, S. J. Bodio, A. Shilstone, “Pigeon Racing: Homing in on an 'invisible' sport”, in (Please provide the title of the work), volume 21, number 7, pages 80, 10p:
- Still, a pigeon's worldview -- its Umwelt, ...
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2006 September 27, Chris Arthur, “Empty Room”, in Southwest Review, volume 91, number 3, pages p295-312, 18p:
- ... a fragment snipped from the perplexing umwelt of Homo sapiens, our innumerable temporary enclosures.
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German[edit]
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Noun[edit]
Umwelt f (genitive Umwelt, plural Umwelten)
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Terms derived from Umwelt
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Declension[edit]
Declension of Umwelt
External links[edit]
- Umwelt in Duden online
