Synonyms for background

Grammar : Noun

Spell : bak-ground

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbækˌgraʊnd

Top 10 synonyms for background

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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

Example sentences :

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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