setting
pronunciation
How to pronounce setting in British English:
UK [ˈsetɪŋ]
How to pronounce setting in American English:
US [ˈsetɪŋ]
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- Noun:
- the context and environment in which something is set
- the state of the environment in which a situation exists
- arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
- the physical position of something
- a table service for one person
- mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place
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- Adjective:
- (of a heavenly body) disappearing below the horizon
Word Origin
- setting (n.)
- late 14c., "fact or action of setting (something), putting, placing, planting," verbal noun from set (v.). Meaning "place, location, site" is late 14c. Surgical sense, with reference to broken bones, etc., is from early 15c. In reference to heavenly bodies, from c. 1400. Also in Middle English "act of creation; thing created" (c. 1400). In reference to mounts for jewels, etc. from 1815; meaning "background, history, environment" is attested from 1841.
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Example
- 1. It is also setting the political agenda in alberta .
- 2. Humaneness can be applicable in a modern democratic setting .
- 3. The period setting adds a modicum of razzle-dazzle .
- 4. Leadership also means setting an example .
- 5. They control the setting from one of the balconies above the stage .