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background
background
noun
Definition of BACKGROUND
1
the physical conditions or features that form the setting against which something is viewed <they got married on a mountain top with the sunset as background>
Related Words mise-en-scène, scene, scenery, set, stage; entourage, environment, milieu, setting, surroundings
2
the place and time in which the action for a portion of a dramatic work (as a movie) is set <the background of that movie is the World War II era>
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