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ambience

[ am-bee-uhns; French ahn-byahns ]

noun

, plural am·bi·enc·es [am, -bee-, uh, n-siz, ah, n, -, byahns].


ambience

/ ɑ̃bjɑ̃s; ˈæmbɪəns /

noun

  1. the atmosphere of a place
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ambience1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Word History and Origins

Origin of ambience1

C19: from French ambiance, from ambiant surrounding; see ambient
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Example Sentences

This function is particularly useful for recording groups of people and capturing conversations with room ambience, which makes for a natural and lifelike recorded sound.

Another picture of the ore lamp in action shows that it provides great ambience with its low light, which was TheRoyalEngineer’s original intention when embarking on the project.

The storyline is important, but it is the ambience that is so entrancing, sort of like an impressionist painting.

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The young student traveled frequently to New York City to attend performances at the Metropolitan Opera House and Carnegie Hall, enthralled by the music and acoustical ambience.

Entrees run $23-35, a steal given the quality of the ingredients and the refined ambience.

This week, they launched a review section that will allow users to rate dispensaries on things like “quality” and “ambience.”

The food here also is delicious and imaginative, but the ambience is 180-degrees different.

The ambience at the FBI was formal, no nonsense, and strictly business.

The décor is clean and simple and the ambience is bustling and laid back at the same time.

Her collection, which showcased on Fashion Week's opening night, was titled “Ambience—The Land, The Woman, and her Man.”

The night was dry, with no hint of mist, but still a milky ambience that gave an effect of gleaming wetness was over all.

I now believe that these documents were written with the first whiff of fear in the NYC air-conditioned office ambience.

Even the shifting shades of the color organ were no more than a faint ambience.

Page 39 word "lambence" changed to "ambience" (no more than a faint ambience) meaning a faint light.

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