Usually means: Context where action and events occur.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word Setting:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. setting: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. setting: Merriam-Webster
  3. setting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. setting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. setting: Collins English Dictionary
  6. setting: Vocabulary.com
  7. Setting, setting: Wordnik
  8. setting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. setting: Wiktionary
  10. setting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. setting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. setting: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. setting: Dictionary.com
  14. setting: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. setting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Setting (fiction), Setting (narrative), Setting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Setting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. setting: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. setting: Rhymezone
  20. setting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. setting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. setting: FreeDictionary.org
  23. setting: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. setting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. setting: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. setting: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Setting: Literary Terms
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. setting: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. setting: Legal dictionary
  4. setting: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. setting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. setting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. setting: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. setting: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. setting: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Setting: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Wine Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (setting)

▸ noun:  The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
▸ noun:  The act of setting.
▸ noun:  A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
▸ noun:  A level or placement to which a knob or control is set.
▸ noun:  The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
▸ noun:  Hunting with a setter.
▸ noun:  Something set in, or inserted.
▸ noun:  A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
▸ noun:  The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
▸ noun:  The direction of a current of wind.
▸ adjective:  that disappears below the horizon

Similar:
mise en scene, stage setting, scene, background, scope, mount, place setting, set, resetting, setup, more...

Opposite:
rising, lifting, ascending, soaring, elevating

Types:
urban, suburban, rural, wilderness, desert, ocean, mountain, forest, jungle, savannah, more...

Phrases:
setting up, setting out, setting in, setting forth, setting aside, more...

Adjectives:
clinical, social, natural, institutional, historical, urban, standard, physical, particular, rural, cultural

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Similar:
mise en scene, stage setting, scene, background, scope, mount, place setting, set, resetting, setup, more...

Opposite:
rising, lifting, ascending, soaring, elevating

Types:
urban, suburban, rural, wilderness, desert, ocean, mountain, forest, jungle, savannah, more...

Phrases:
setting up, setting out, setting in, setting forth, setting aside, setting sun, Goal setting, setting to, setting off, setting on, setting down, setting fire, setting by, agenda setting, setting time, more...

Adjectives:
clinical, social, natural, institutional, historical, urban, standard, physical, particular, rural, cultural

Colors:
    crimson,     amber,     gold,     scarlet,     vermilion, more...



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