different between milieu vs zeitgeist

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French milieu.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /m?l?ju/, /m?l?j?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mi?l.j??/, /m?l?j??/
• (from French) IPA^(key): /mi?ljø/

Noun

milieu (plural milieux or milieus)

1. A particular medium.
2. A social setting or environment.

Derived terms

• micromilieu

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French milieu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l?jø?/
• Hyphenation: mi?li?eu
• Rhymes: -ø?

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

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: milieu

French

Etymology

Composed of mi- (“mid”) +? lieu (“place”); in Old French as meillieu, mileu, miliu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.ljø/

Noun

milieu m (plural milieux)

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

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch milieu, from French milieu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mi?li.?u?]
• Hyphenation: mi?li?êu

Noun

miliêu (first-person possessive milieuku, second-person possessive milieumu, third-person possessive milieunya)

1. milieu, environment.

   Synonym: lingkungan

Further reading

• “milieu” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French milieu.

Noun

milieu m (plural milieus)

1. milieu (a person’s social setting or environment)

Romanian

Etymology

From French milieu

Noun

milieu n (plural milieuri)

1. social origin
2. ornamental object made out of lace

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• Zeitgeist

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zeitgeist (literally “time-spirit”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tsa?t?a?st/, /?za?t?a?st/

Noun

zeitgeist (plural zeitgeists or zeitgeister or zeitgeisten)

1. The spirit of the age; the taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period.

   Synonyms: spiritus mundi, temper of the times, tenor of the times

   • 1996, Michael Vanden Heuvel, Elmer Rice: A Research and Production Sourcebook, Greenwood Publishing Group ?ISBN

     After quickly summarizing the zeitgeisten of the Greek, Elizabethan, and early modern periods and their effects on the theatre, Rice turns to the contemporary world.

Usage notes

• The German term, Zeitgeist, is commonly not pluralized. Geist (“ghost, spirit”) however has the plural Geister.

Derived terms

• zeitgeisty

See also

• sign of the times

Translations

Further reading

• zeitgeist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Alternative forms

• Zeitgeist

Etymology

From German Zeitgeist.

Noun

zeitgeist c (singular definite zeitgeisten, not used in plural form)

1. zeitgeist
   • 2013, Lars Holger Holm, Kenneth Maximilian Geneser, Gotisk ?ISBN, page 140

     De bliver dermed til et fænomen i tiden, til tidsbilleder, som kan tydes og bruges i en afsøgning af zeitgeisten.

     They thus become a phenomenon of the time, time-images, that may be deciphered and used in an investigation of the zeitgeist.

   • 2010, Henrik List, Sidste nat i kødbyen, Lindhardt og Ringhof ?ISBN

     Og hvem ville så bryde sig om at være lyseslukker til zeitgeistens swingerfest? Hvem ville så sige nej tak til en plads i VIP-afdelingen til den store, subkulturelle love-in?

     And who would then like to be a party-pooper at the swinger's party of the zeitgeist? Who would then refuse a spot in the VIP section at the big, subcultural love-in?

Declension

Synonyms

• tidsånd

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zeitgeist.

Noun

zeitgeist m (plural zeitgeists)

1. (sociology) zeitgeist (the dominant set of ideals and beliefs of an era)