background
/bˈækɡɹˌaʊnd/ · 2 syllables
Meaning
noun
- a person's social heritage: previous experience or training
“he is a lawyer with a sports background” - the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground
“he posed her against a background of rolling hills” - information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem
“the embassy filled him in on the background of the incident” - extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured
“they got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals” - relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
“when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background” - the state of the environment in which a situation exists
“you can't do that in a university setting” - (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
- scenery hung at back of stage
verb
- understate the importance or quality of
“he played down his royal ancestry”
Synonyms for background
Antonyms of background
Words that rhyme with background
Developers: get definitions, synonyms, antonyms, rhymes and pronunciation for 147,000 words as JSON with the English Dictionary API (free trial).