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AMBIANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ambiance mean? 

AMBIANCE (noun)
  The noun AMBIANCE has 2 senses:

1. a particular environment or surrounding influenceplay

2. the atmosphere of an environmentplay

  Familiarity information: AMBIANCE used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AMBIANCE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A particular environment or surrounding influence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

ambiance; ambience; atmosphere

Context example:

there was an atmosphere of excitement

Hypernyms ("ambiance" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ambiance"):

genius loci (the special atmosphere of a place)

gloom; gloominess; glumness (an atmosphere of depression and melancholy)

miasm; miasma (an unwholesome atmosphere)

feel; feeling; flavor; flavour; look; smell; spirit; tone (the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The atmosphere of an environment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

ambiance; ambience

Hypernyms ("ambiance" is a kind of...):

environment; environs; surround; surroundings (the area in which something exists or lives)


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