• n.
    ⦿relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation
    lexical concept
  • when the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:background
wn:interlingual indexili:i74974

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelbackground