Background

1. n. A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight.
2. n. Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.
3. n. The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.
4. n. Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.