milieu

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for October 27, 2026 is: milieu • \meel-YOO\ • noun Milieu is a formal word that refers to the physical or social setting in which people live or in which something happens or develops. // Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Toomer were among the many writers who flourished in the intellectual milieu of the Harlem Renaissance. See the entry > Examples: “‘Hombre al Agua’ starts out playful and grows more overtly comic, particularly once politics is thrown into the mix. At one point, a character compares the film’s milieu , the world of the rich, to ol

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