ambiance

See also: ambiancé

English

Alternative forms

• ambience

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French ambiance.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒm.bi.ɒns/, /ˈæm.bi.əns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑm.bi.ɑns/, /ˈæm.bi.əns/

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Noun

ambiance (countable and uncountable, plural ambiances)

1. A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.
   • 1979 April 14, Roger L. Winters, “Gay Politics”, in Gay Community News, page 5:

     The pressures […] on a post-pubescent youngster, still half-child-half-man/woman, are difficult enough for someone whose sexuality fits into the accepted ambiance, i.e., heterosexuality.

2. (computer graphics, 3D models) A secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.

Related terms

• ambient

Translations

particular mood or atmosphere of an environment

• Bulgarian: атмосфера (bg) (atmosfera)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氣氛／气氛 (zh) (qìfēn), 氛围 (zh)

• Dutch: sfeer (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: etoso
• Faroese: huglag n, dámur m, stemningur m, umhvørvi n
• Finnish: ilmapiiri (fi), tunnelma (fi)
• German: Stimmung (de) f, Atmosphäre (de) f, Ambiente (de) n, Umgebung (de) f
• Greek: ατμόσφαιρα (el) f (atmósfaira)
• Hebrew: אווירה (he) f (avira)
• Norwegian: stemning c
• Polish: atmosfera (pl) f
• Portuguese: atmosfera (pt) f, ambiência f
• Russian: обстано́вка (ru) f (obstanóvka), атмосфе́ра (ru) f (atmosféra)
• Serbo-Croatian: ambijent (sh) m
• Spanish: ambiente (es) f, atmósfera (es) f
• Swedish: atmosfär (sv) c, stämning (sv) c, känsla (sv) c
• Turkish: ambiyans (tr)

secondary color of a polygon in 3D graphics

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Translations to be checked

• Latvian: ^{(please verify)} apkārtne
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} ambijent (sh) m

See also

• atmosphere
• mood

French

Etymology

From ambiant +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃s/

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• Homophones: ambiancent, ambiances
• Hyphenation: am‧biance
• Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

ambiance f (plural ambiances)

1. ambiance, atmosphere

Descendants

• → Turkish: ambiyans

Verb

ambiance

1. inflection of ambiancer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “ambiance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “ambiance” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “ambiance” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.