Establishment and Setting

Establishment

Establishment noun - A building, room, or suite of rooms occupied by a service business.

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Setting and establishment are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Setting" instead a noun "Establishment".

Setting noun - The circumstances, conditions, or objects by which one is surrounded.

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Establishment and setting are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Establishment" instead a noun "Setting".

Nearby Words: set, settling, setter

good	good establishment	good setting
full	full establishment	full setting
typical	typical establishment	typical setting
current	current establishment	current setting
Other adjectives: original, single, popular, actual, entire, new, unique, early, military, titular, academic, magical.

Don't Come A-Knockin': Sims WooHoo this way in every setting, be it a bed, shower, tent, sarcophagus, photo booth, haystack, or public establishment.

Source: Video Game / The Sims
Particularly egregious considering the second movie is pretty much filler and the establishment of Chekhov's guns, and only exists for the sake of setting up the third.

Source: Film / Arthur and the Invisibles
In Kushiel's Dart, Melisande hires an entire brothel (a high-class establishment practicing one of the most honoured professions in that particular culture, but still a brothel) as the setting for her lover Prince Baudoin's birthday party.

Source: A Party, Also Known as an Orgy

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