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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environment |
| Synonyms: | ambiance, area, aura, backdrop, background, circumstances, climate, conditions, context, domain, element, encompassment, entourage, environs, habitat, hood, jungle*, locale, location, medium, milieu, neck of the woods, neighborhood, place, purlieus, scene, scenery, setting, situation, status, stomping ground, surroundings, terrain, territory, turf, vicinity, zoo |
| Notes: | a location is a place, a locality is an area within a place, and a locale is a place regarded as an environment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mise en scene |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scene |
| Synonyms: | arena, backdrop, background, blackout, display, exhibition, flat, flats, landscape, locale, locality, location, mise en scène, outlook, pageant, picture, place, representation, scenery, seascape, set, setting, show, sight, site, spectacle, spot, stage, tableau, theater, view |
| Main Entry: | mise en scene |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environment |
| Synonyms: | ambiance, atmosphere, aura, backdrop, background, circumstances, climate, conditions, context, domain, element, encompassment, entourage, habitat, hood, jungle*, locale, medium, milieu, neck of the woods, neighborhood, purlieus, scene, scenery, setting, situation, status, stomping ground, surroundings, terrain, territory, turf, world, zoo |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | district |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Antarctalian, Arctalian, Lutetian, Novanglian, amphigean, azonic, civil, classical, costumbrista, gerontogeous, holarctic, illocal, local, manx, orarian, parochial, provincial, sympatric, tedesco, territorial, topopolitan, transpadane
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| Main Entry: | position |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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abaxial, abutting, adaxial, adjacent, adjoining, advance, akimbo, aknee, ambient, anterior, antipodal, apical, apposed, arrayed, at hand, axial, back, bordering, cater, central, centric, chirognostic, circumambient, circumferential, circumjacent, close, coaxial, coextensive, coincident, colinear, collateral, collinear, concentric, confocal, consecutive, conterminous, contiguous, convenient, convergent, converse, coplanar, coterminous, covering, crisscross, crossed, deasil, decussate, deep, detached, discontinuous, discrete, distal, distant, distinct, dorsal, dorsolateral, encircling, enclosed, enclosing, encompassing, enveloping, equidistant, equitant, erect, even, exterior, external, face, far, farther, farthest, first, flanking, flush, fore, forward, fringe, fronting, gardant, grufeling, guardant, halfway, hanging, hindmost, hithermost, immediate, indoors, infradig, inner, innermost, insessorial, interior, intermediate, interposed, intersecting, interspersed, intervening, inverted, kitty, lateral, leeward, levitated, local, long, lower, malposed, medial, median, mid, middle, midway, nearby, next, obverse, one, outdoors, outer, outmost, outside, overlying, padmasana, parallel, pendent, peripheral, perpendicular, plumb, point, port, posterior, prone, prostrate, proximal, proximate, quincunx, rear, reclining, rectilinear, recumbent, remote, retral, ringside, rolled, separate, sinistral, situate, situated, square, starboard, stationary, stoss, suburban, suburbicarian, successive, superior, superjacent, supine, surrounding, suspended, topical, topographical, transverse, ulterior, ultimate, uppermost, ventral, windward, zonal
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| Concept: | Location. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE SPACE |
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-nouns
location, localization; lodgment; deposition, reposition; stowage, package; collocation; packing, lading; establishment, settlement, installation; fixation; insertion., anchorage, mooring, encampment., plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment; colonization, domestication, situation; habitation (abode); cohabitation; "a local habitation and a name" [Midsummer Night's Dream]; endenization, naturalization.
-verbs
place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set, seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix, pin, root; graft; plant (insert); shelve, pitch, camp, lay down, deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed, imbed; vest, invest in., billet on, quarter upon, saddle with; load, lade, freight; pocket, put up, bag., inhabit (be present); domesticate, colonize; take root, strike root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down; settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's horses at; keep house., endenizen, naturalize, adopt., put back, replace (restore) [more].
-adjectives
placed; situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed, rooted; domesticated; vested in, unremoved., moored; at anchor.
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| Concept: | [Limited space] Place. |
| Category: | 1. ABSTRACT SPACE |
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-nouns
place, lieu, spot, point, dot; niche, nook (corner); hole; pigeonhole (receptacle); compartment; premises, precinct, station; area, courtyard, square; abode; locality (situation)., ins and outs; every hole and corner.
-adverbs
somewhere, in some place, wherever it may be, here and there, in various places, passim.
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| Concept: | [Definite space] Region. |
| Category: | 1. ABSTRACT SPACE |
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-nouns
region, sphere, ground, soil, area, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle; pale (limit); compartment, department; clearing; domain, tract, territory, country, canton, county, shire, province, arrondissement, mofussil, parish, township, commune, ward; wapentake, hundred, riding, lathe, garth, soke, tithing, bailiwick; principality, duchy, kingdom; archduchy, archdukedom., arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march; patch, plot, inclosure, close, enclave, field, court; street (abode)., clime, climate, zone, meridian, latitude.
-adjectives
territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional.
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| Concept: | Situation. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE SPACE |
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-nouns
situation, position, locality, locale, status, latitude and longitude; footing, standing, standpoint, post; stage; aspect, attitude, posture, pose., place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts; ground; bearings (direction); spot (limited space)., topography, geography, chorography; map.
-verbs
be situated, be situate; lie, have its seat in.
-adjectives
situate, situated; local, topical, topographical.
-adverbs
in situ, in loco; here and there, passim; here abouts, there abouts, where abouts; in place, here, there., in such and such surroundings, in such and such environs, in such and such entourage, amidst such and such surroundings, amidst such and such environs, amidst such and such entourage.
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