Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The special atmosphere or mood created by a particular environment: "The noir ambience is dominated by low-key lighting . . . and deep shadows, creating feelings of disorientation, loneliness and entrapment” ( UCLA Film/TV Archive).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Environment: in art, the arrangement of accessories and surroundings to support the main effect intended.
Wiktionary
- n. A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.
- n. computer graphics, 3D models A secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a particular environment or surrounding influence
- n. the atmosphere of an environment
Etymologies
- Borrowing from French ambiance (Wiktionary)
- French, from ambiant, surrounding, from Latin ambiēns, ambient-; see ambient. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Most of the following hotels are located in downtown Puerto Vallarta, south of the Rio Cuale, where the ambiance is at its best and the beach, restaurants, shopping, and nightlife are within walking distance.”
“Also, important to note, and adding on the notion that you are paying for service and ambiance, is the high mark-up of alcoholic beverages is partially to offset the slowing of table turnover due to alcohol consumption (but a lot of it is taxes and licenses, a petition at my local brewery against futher increases in tax on serving alcohol suggested that 44% of beer prices are tax in michigan).”
My Guess on Take-Out, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Finding poinsettias for that additional touch of Christmas ambiance is not a problem; after all, poinsettias are indigenous to Mexico and are abundant in Vallarta.”
“Yet somehow to Weingrad, that ambiance is the true “high fantasy.””
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“Dec 5th, 2007 at 9: 39 am ckc just had 2 latkes and 2 blintzes for $11.95 at Diamond Dairy – maybe not worth it for the food, but the ambiance is hysterical! was really fun place to eat lunch.”
“The ambiance is 10 if you include the hospitality of Salvador.”
“Trip is a character in Façade, a new videogame that borrows its ambiance from the modern theater.”
“Wasnt bad, but it wasnt Honda Ya in ambiance, qaulity or value.”
“As you see, there's 2 major times: in the short term, close-ups + general shots before opening, so they will be able to make for their initial marketing and advertisement campaign, then in the long term ambiance shots for newspapers, brochures, company internal magazines, etc.”
“The ambiance is the merchandise," Mr. Shapiro says.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ambiance’.
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Film
jidaigeki, samurai, Kurosawa, action, comedy, drama, Bergman, Buñuel, surreal, rotoscope, melodrama, Cinerama and 333 more...
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D_Verbatim
sporadic, peculiar, treacherous, niche, ambiance, ruckus, notion, voyeurism, exclusion, proselytize, opaque, perverse and 12 more...
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Words I Used to Know
Words that make you go "I know that word...what the heck does it mean?!?
pulchritude, sanguine, trenchant, picaresque, gloaming, perfidious, confabulation, epiphany, importune, fulminate, efficacious, maladroit and 111 more...
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kirstenio's Words
lascivious, transcendant, phantasmagoria, salacious, beatitude, solitude, pseudo, pretentious, inanity, sublimation, clobber, obscurity and 186 more...
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Rose varieties
Rosarians have names for thousands of varieties of roses.
holy toledo, gourmet popcorn, apple jack, barbara bush, burning desire, hot tamale, tradescant, sweet surrender, sweet chariot, pinocchio, oyster pearl, olympiad and 309 more...
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Tory's First Wordie List
perambulate, mumpsimus, euphoric, peripatetic, mellifluous, soporific, neologism, nihilism, nepotism, effervescent, lascivious, esoteric and 217 more...
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MyVocab
A list of words to remember to incorporate into my vocabulary.
An extensive vocabulary aids expressions and communication.
Vocabulary size has been directly linked to reading com...acquiesce, self-disparaging, receded, abrogate, robust, putative, capricious, imperious, lexicon, syntax, semantics, pith and 139 more...
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ginnylev's Words
neuroplasticity, repudiate, scintilla, ruminate, tautology, ombudsman, exigent, filibuster, grace, ambidextrous, amends, disclosure and 623 more...
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Evin290's Words
puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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n4oliver's Words
ubiquitous, heteroatom, metrosexual, chemistry, benzaldehyde, almond, wine, absurd, behoove, thong, existential, ambiguous and 24 more...
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adieu, air, arwen, ash, aurora, acoustic, azure, aromatic, autumn, agleam, antique, albino and 19 more...
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lovetwilight's Words
ambivalent, ominous, scintillating, illusion, rambunctious, rendezvous, vindicated, recalcitrant, eccentric, quagmire, soporific, ambiance
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pleasantries
appreciate.
evanescent, misty, nocturne, incandescent, paradigm, parenthetical, orb, aquatic, transatlanticism, transcendent, orchestral, astronomical and 28 more...
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Big Book of Words
hone, jibe, limn, tome, intrepid, augur, caveat, encomium, ephemera, factotum, gravitas, impediment and 83 more...
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pshaw's Words
pshaw, worcestershire, ubermensch, ambiance, ittawamba, caveat emptor, functional, double entendre, monad, kumbaya, coprolalia, epicureanism and 31 more...
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parky, pinnacle, marrowfat, sombrous, photophone, misandrist, misogynist, hypostyle, cordial, tulipomania, cornucopia, qualms and 36 more...
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