background


Meanings

  • 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;
  • (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear
  • scenery hung at back of stage
  • understate the importance or quality of;


Scrabble Score: 20

background is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

background is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

background is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary


Words With Friends Score: 25

background is a valid Words With Friends word