milieu

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈmiːljɜː/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /mɪlˈjɜː/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /-ˈju/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /-ˈjʊ/
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• General-American: /mɪlˈju/
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• General-American: /-ˈjʊ/
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• rhymes with -uː
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• CMU ARPABET: M IH0 L Y UH1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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PIE word *me 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)”)).

38 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: околна среда (okolna sreda) — social setting
• Chinese Mandarin: 社會環境 /社会环境 (shèhuì huánjìng) — social setting
• Danish: miljø — social setting
• Dutch: milieu — social setting
• Esperanto: socia medio — social setting
• Estonian: miljöö — social setting
• Finnish: lähiympäristö — social setting
• Finnish: miljöö — social setting
• Finnish: ympäristö — social setting
• French: milieu — social setting
• German: Milieu — social setting
• Greek: περιβάλλον (perivállon) — social setting
• Hungarian: miliő — social setting
• Indonesian: milieu — social setting
• Indonesian: lingkungan hidup — social setting
• Irish: timpeallacht — social setting
• Korean: 사회환경 (sahoehwan'gyeong) — social setting
• Malay: milieu — social setting
• Norwegian: miljø — social setting
• Polish: otoczenie — social setting
• Polish: środowisko — social setting
• Polish: milieu — social setting
• Portuguese: milieu — social setting
• Portuguese: meio social — social setting
• Romanian: mijloc — social setting
• Russian: среда́ (sredá) — social setting
• Spanish: entorno — social setting
• Spanish: ambiente — social setting
• Spanish: milieu — social setting
• Swedish: miljö — social setting
• Tamil: சூழல் (cūḻal) — social setting
• Ukrainian: середовище (seredovyšče) — social setting
• Finnish: luokka — group of people with a common point of view — see also social class
• Polish: otoczenie — group of people with a common point of view — see also social class
• Polish: środowisko — group of people with a common point of view — see also social class
• Polish: milieu — group of people with a common point of view — see also social class
• Swedish: cirkel — group of people with a common point of view — see also social class
• Swedish: miljö — group of people with a common point of view — see also social class