Synonyms of the word

milieu

• n. (Can we verify^{([fullurl:Wiktionary:Requests for verification/English?? +])} this sense?) medium.
• n. A person's social setting or environment.

environment

• n. The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.
• n. The natural world or ecosystem.
• n. All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.
• n. A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.
• n. (computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
• n. (programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of…
• n. (computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with…

surroundings

• n. plural of surrounding.
• n. the area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity;…
• n. (physics) All parts of the universe that are not within the thermodynamic system of interest.