Usually means: Contexts or settings for events, scenes.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word backgrounds:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. backgrounds: Merriam-Webster
  2. backgrounds: Collins English Dictionary
  3. backgrounds: Vocabulary.com
  4. Backgrounds, background's, backgrounds: Wordnik
  5. backgrounds: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. backgrounds: Wiktionary
  7. backgrounds: Dictionary.com
  8. backgrounds: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Backgrounds: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Backgrounds: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Backgrounds: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Backgrounds: Encyclopedia

(Note: See background as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (background)

adjective:  Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
noun:  One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past.
noun:  A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context.
noun:  (film) An extra who appears in the background, with no speaking role.
noun:  Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history.
noun:  A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground).
noun:  (computing) The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows).
noun:  (computing) A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user.
verb:  (transitive) To put in a position that is not prominent.
verb:  (journalism) To gather and provide background information (on).
verb:  (transitive) To increase the weight and immunity of (a calf) by feeding with forage and grains, as an intermediate stage in cattle production, between weaning and placement in a feedlot.
noun:  (physics) Clipping of background radiation. [ionizing radiation that is naturally present in the environment.]
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