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Context Text Noun Idea Event General Situation Relates

word context
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The context of an idea or event is the general situation that relates to it, and which helps it to be understood .
We are doing this work in the context of reforms in the economic, social and cultural spheres.
...the historical context in which Chaucer wrote.
This is the context in which the President must decide his policy.
The context of a word, sentence, or text consists of the words, sentences, or text before and after it which help to make its meaning clear .
Without a context, I would have assumed it was written by a man.
inflections contexts
cefr-level A2

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