Discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation.

synonyms: context of use, linguistic context.

Roget 591: printing; block printing, type-printing; plate printing etc. 558 (engraving); the press etc. (publication) 531; composition.    print, letterpress, text; context, note, page, column.    typography; stereotype, electrotype, aprotype^†; type, black letter, font, fount; pi, pie; capitals etc. (letters) 561; brevier^†, bourgeois, pica boldface &c., capitals, caps.   , catchword; composing-frame, composing room, composing rule, composing stand, composing stick; italics, justification, linotype, live matter, logotype; lower case, upper case; make-up, matrix, matter, monotype^†; [point system], 4-1/2 point, 5 point, 5-1/2 point, 6 point, 7 point, 8 point, press room, press work; reglet^†, roman; running head, running title; scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay.    folio etc. (book) 593; copy, impression, pull, proof, revise; author's proof, galley proof, press proof; press revise.    printer, compositor, reader; printer's devil copyholder.    ... show more

Roget 88: accompaniment; adjunct etc. 39; context; appendage, appurtenance.    coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship; partnership, copartnership; coefficiency^†.    concomitant, accessory, coefficient; companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague; consort, spouse, mate; partner, co-partner; satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow; escort, cortege; attribute.    ... show more

Dutch: samenhang, context
Polish: kontekst

The set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event:
— The historical context.

synonyms: circumstance, setting.

Roget 8: circumstance, situation, phase, position, posture, attitude, place, point; terms; regime; footing, standing, status.    occasion, juncture, conjunctive; contingency etc. (event) 151.    predicament; emergence, emergency; exigency, crisis, pinch, pass, push; occurrence; turning point.    bearings, how the land lies.    surroundings, context, environment 232; location 184.    contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475; causation 153, attribution 155.    ... show more

Dutch: context, omstandigheid
Polish: sceneria, sztafaż, tło, kontekst