BACKGROUND

BAC ·KGROUND 2 syllables

A2 · Elementary 📏 10 letters 🎲 Scrabble 20 ✅ valid word

Common in conversation and basic reading.

noun
  1. a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
  2. the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
  3. information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
  4. extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured

💬 Examples

  • "he is a lawyer with a sports background"
  • "he posed her against a background of rolling hills"
  • "the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident"
  • "they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals"

🔗 Similar words

groundbackground_knowledgebackground_signalsettingscopedesktop
verb
  1. understate the importance or quality of

💬 Examples

  • "he played down his royal ancestry"

🔗 Similar words

play_downdownplay
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