Context Meaning
/ˈkɒn.tɛkst/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
nounThe text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
Sentence Examples
It depends on the context.
If you don't understand something, it's because you aren't aware of its context.
You must place these events in their historical context.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Historians always examine the historical ____ surrounding a primary source document.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
It depends on the ____.
Word Origin & History
From Latin context(us).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The display and result must be placed in the context that was it was against a side that looked every bit their Fifa world ranking of 141 - but England completed the job with efficiency to record their biggest away win in 19 years."
— 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport:
"The whole worlds frame, which is contexted onely by commerce and contracts."
— 1638, Richard Younge, The Drunkard's Character: Or, a True Drunkard with Such Sinnes as Raigne in Him:
"If the Subiect bee Historie, or contexted Fable, then I hold it better put in Prose, or Blanks: for ordinarie discourse neuer shewes so well in Meeter"
— 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
"And though he could describe how such a string may be context, yet our Explication will have this advantage in point of probability above his, ..."
— 1662, Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-mechanical, Touching the Spring of the Air, and its Effects, page 73:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Historians always examine the historical ____ surrounding a primary source document.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
It depends on the ____.