milieu

See also: Milieu

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowing from French milieu.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /mɪlˈju/, /mɪlˈjʊ/
• (from French) IPA^(key): /milˈjø/

Noun

milieu (plural milieux or milieus)

1. medium
2. A person's social setting or environment.

Translations

a person’s social setting or environment

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 周圍環境 (zh), 周围环境 (zhōuwéi huánjìng)

• Danish: miljø n
• Estonian: miljöö
• Finnish: ympäristö (fi), lähiympäristö, miljöö (fi)
• French: milieu (fr) m
• German: Milieu (de) n
• Greek: περιβάλλον (el) n (perivállon)

• Indonesian: lingkungan hidup (id)
• Norwegian: miljø (no) n
• Portuguese: milieu (pt) m
• Romanian: mijloc (ro) n
• Russian: среда́ (ru) f (sredá)
• Spanish: entorno (es) m
• Swedish: miljö (sv) c

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Dutch

FWOTD - 28 January 2013

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪlˈjøː/

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Noun

milieu n (plural milieus, diminutive milieutje n)

1. environment
   • 2006, Hilde Greefs, Water Management, Communities, and Environment: The Low Countries in Comparative Perspective, C. 1000 - C. 1800, Academia Press, pages 195:

     Maar turfwinning had een onbedoeld gevolg voor het milieu: bodemdaling en -erosie waardoor het waterbeheer een problematisch karakter kreeg.

     But peat extraction had an unintended consequence for the environment: sinking and erosion of the soil which made water management problematic in character.

2. milieu
   • 2012 Robert Mallet-Stevens on the Dutch wikipedia

     Mallet-Stevens [...] stamde uit een gegoed milieu.

     Mallet-Stevens was posh.

Derived terms

• milieuverontreiniging
• milieuvriendelijk

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French

Etymology

mi- (“mid”) +‎ lieu (“place”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ljø/

• audio

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Noun

milieu m (plural milieux)

1. middle; center
2. setting; environment; surroundings
3. social circle; milieu

Derived terms

• au milieu

External links

• "milieu" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).