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Synonyms for background
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : bak-ground |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbækˌgraʊnd |
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Définition of background
Origin :- 1670s, from back (adj.) + ground (n.); original sense was theatrical, later applied to painting. Figurative sense is first attested 1854.
- noun experience or circumstances
- He wanted to use the old city as a background for his own newly-acquired glory.
- Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon
- He had sat in the background, but he had found both money and energy.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- But he did not have the work acted; it was sung in costume with a background of appropriate scenery.
- Extract from : « Handel » by Edward J. Dent
- She was standing against a background of blooming hollyhocks.
- Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
- With Linda lay the advantage by far, since she had Marian's letters for a background.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- The throb of these sounds was as a background to the evening--fierce, passionate, barbaric.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- It was decent of Winkleman to keep himself in the background just at first.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- They stand on the eminence that forms the background of my present view.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume V (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
- In the background the cabby loitered, gnawed by insatiable curiosity.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- Quite a pastoral scene, with a background of river and windmill!
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
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