milieu

The two shows are so similar—premise, tone, characters, milieu—that comparisons are inevitable.

Elle se tenait au milieu de la porte, un peu de ct, avec le visage tourn vers moi.

Other botanists—French, German, and English—have also been led to believe in the direct influence of the milieu, or environment.

Comme il se couchait de trs bonne heure, il lui arrivait de s'veiller au milieu de la nuit.

On the Zone, the Spanish labourer works in order to save and to depart, the milieu being foreign to him and unattractive.

No playwright is more joyously observant than Mr. Jones; and none observes more accurately, in the milieu that he has chosen.