Milieu is the word for environment in French, and, for hundreds of years, also in Dutch, German, Swedish, English, and other languages that were strongly influenced by French culture and French language, primarily during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Milieu may refer to:
- Social environment
- Milieu Therapy, a form of psychotherapy that involves the use of therapeutic communities
- Mont de Milieu, a Premier cru vineyard in Chablis
Famous quotes containing the word milieu:
“A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody’s opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust.... You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will.... Each hour is precious.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)