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" My childhood lacked affection and ambience."
Jacqueline de Ribes

Meaning of "ambience" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AMBIENCE

From French ambiance, from ambiant surrounding.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF AMBIENCE

ˈæmbɪəns


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AMBIENCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ambience is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AMBIENCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of ambience in the English dictionary

The definition of ambience in the dictionary is the atmosphere of a place.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AMBIENCE

alliance · ambiance · annoyance · appliance · audience · bioscience · circumambience · compliance · convenience · covariance · defiance · experience · geoscience · neuroscience · obedience · radiance · reliance · resilience · science · variance

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AMBIENCE

ambiance · ambidentate · ambidexter · ambidexterity · ambidexterous · ambidextrous · ambidextrously · ambidextrousness · ambient · ambient music · ambient noise · ambiguities · ambiguity · ambiguous · ambiguously · ambiguousness · ambilateral · ambimoustrous · ambiophony · ambipolar

WORDS THAT END LIKE AMBIENCE

at your convenience · at your earliest convenience · Bachelor of Science · computer science · conference · conscience · disobedience · earth science · flag of convenience · impatience · inconvenience · information science · life science · Master of Science · natural science · patience · political science · social science · target audience · the dismal science · work experience

Synonyms and antonyms of ambience in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «AMBIENCE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ambience» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «ambience» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF AMBIENCE

Find out the translation of ambience to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of ambience from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ambience» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

氛围
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

ambiente
570 millions of speakers
en

English

ambience
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

माहौल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اجواء
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

окружение
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

ambiente
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

বাতাবরণ
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

ambiance
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Suasana
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Ambiente
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

アンビエンス
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

분위기
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Ambience
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không khí
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

சுற்றுப்புறத்தை
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

वातावरण
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

ortam
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

ambiente
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

atmosfera
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

оточення
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

ambianță
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ατμόσφαιρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

atmosfeer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

atmosfär
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

atmosfære
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ambience

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AMBIENCE»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of ambience
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «ambience».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ambience

EXAMPLES

9 QUOTES WITH «AMBIENCE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ambience.
1
Kate Atkinson
I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.
2
Harold Budd
But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience.
3
Jacqueline de Ribes
My childhood lacked affection and ambience.
4
Patty Griffin
Studios are designed to pull out all of that beautiful ambience you get from singing in a room, and then the engineer puts it back in digitally or through whatever machinery you've got.
5
Bill Laswell
In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.
6
LeRoy Neiman
Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.
7
Jean Reno
I first decided to become an actor at school. A teacher gave us a play to do and that had a major impact. At first, I wanted to work in the theatre, but there was something about the ambience of film, especially American films, that always attracted me.
8
Paul Scott
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
9
Rob Sheffield
'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMBIENCE»

Discover the use of ambience in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ambience and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Capturing Mood, Ambience & Dramatic Effects: The Dynamic ...
This is a must-have how-to for all photographers wishing to imbue their images with personal expression.
Joseph R. Meehan, 2009
2
Assessing Urban Design: Historical Ambience on the Waterfront
This book is an important work for scholars and students of architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, and tourism.
Richard W. Berman, 2006
3
Mood, Ambience and Dramatic Effects
Master photographer Joseph Meehan provides invaluable professional advice on how to add drama with light quality, change the subject presentation through lens focal length, work with filters, shift perspectives, and harness the power of ...
Joseph Meehan, 2007
4
A Southern Ambience: Ramblings of a 'Working Man'
Ramblings of a 'Working Man' Holt E Glenn. A Southern Ambience 5% Ramblings ofa 'Working Man' ' ' Holt E. Glenn AuthorHouse TM 1663 Liberty Drive Bloomington, IN 47403 www.authorhouse.com Phone:
Holt E Glenn, 2013
5
"El Ambiente" (Ambience).
El Ambiente, an installation, recreates a poignant childhood memory and revisits a profound experience I had as a female muralist in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood in East Los Angeles in the early 1970s.
Norma Montoya, 2008
6
Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living
internally determined, for an observer its ontogeny partly reflects its history of interactions with an independent ambience. Accordingly, two otherwise equivalent autopoietic systems may have different ontogenies. (v) An observer beholding an ...
H.R. Maturana, 1980
7
Examining the Differential Aging of the Ambient and Focal ...
Low Moderate High Ambience The 2-way Positional Uncertainty by Ambience interaction was also decomposed into its simple effects using an adjusted a =.01 (see Figure 30). PDT hit rates were significantly lower when the target's location ...
Ben J. Schlorholtz, 2008
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The Method and Principles of Complementary Reflection in and ...
To put complementary reflection on a firm foundation entails exploring the ambience of its possibility. This ambience is the sum total of all known and unknown factors, conditions and actors that enter into such reflection. Here we are thinking of ...
Innocent Asouzu, 2005
9
Global Aging and Its Challenge to Families
Parents with a partner were more positive in their perspective on family ambience than parents without a partner, while there was no difference between these parents and their partners. In general children were lower on family ambience.
Vern L. Bengtson, Ariela Lowenstein
10
Every Trail Has a Story: Heritage Travel in Canada
DOGSLEDDING: OLD. CANADA. AMBIENCE. In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. -EDWARD HOAGLAND1 ...
Bob Henderson, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AMBIENCE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ambience is used in the context of the following news items.
1
New name, new look for Chestnut Hill mall
Simon Property Group Inc., which owns the 41-year-old mall, is in the midst of a renovation to create a similar high-end ambience outside. «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
2
Pop-up markets, more shops, cafes, office space and higher-density …
“We need to be looking (at) how to lift the ambience of the Town of Walkerville and do it in the most efficient manner,” Mr Grigg said. “The sort of ... «Perth Now, Jul 15»
3
AMP moves to second stage of $1b revamp at Circular Quay
... the commercial office tower at 50 Bridge Street is designed as a 'vertical village' that takes on board the ambience and social character of the ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
4
The Voice: Tim McCallum's rise from busker to national spotlight
... has a flow of people wandering the area and meandering through and I just try to entertain and add to the ambience of the place," he said. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
5
'Tapers' at the Grateful Dead Concerts Spread the Audio Sacrament
“To stop it would require security measures so draconian that it would ruin the ambience of the show,” and the Dead “hated being cops,” he ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
6
Are these places really dangerous, or boring? Picture: Tjis Azinkels …
... city and those buildings in every style of architecture you can imagine combined with the picturesque parks are a huge part of the ambience. «NEWS.com.au, Jul 15»
7
Gawker's Nick Denton: 'We are not part of your PR marketing machine'
... terrace during the Cannes Lions advertising festival and says, slowly, “A lot of business gets done here, but the ambience … it's appalling.”. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
8
Albuquerque turns out for U.S. in championship
They decided to head to the restaurant for the ambience. “It's just exciting – all the energy. There's an atmosphere,” Casaus said. “It's cool that ... «Albuquerque Journal, Jul 15»
9
Redevelopment wave to hit Coral Gables
... downtown are drawing away well-to-do shoppers, diners and residents by amping up the pedestrian, dining and shopping ambience. «Miami Herald, Jul 15»
10
Blend of old and new creates offices downtown
They will remain exposed as part of the ambience of the building. “It is almost like a goldfish bowl,” Anderson said, noting the enormous amount ... «Frederick News Post, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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