milieu
mi lyoo
- n the environmental condition
- When the cowherd reached the big city he was flummoxed and felt out of his milieu.
- How did NBC get two shows in the same unusual milieu in the same season? Apparently by coincidence.
- But banking bored him, and the gay Greenwich Village milieu that he slipped into was full of scruffy radicals, drug-addled theater queens and goofy twentysomethings fleeing Midwest .