ambiance

English

Alternative forms

• ambience

Etymology

Borrowing from French ambiance

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈɒ̃m.bi.ɑ̃s/, /ˈæm.bi.əns/, X-SAMPA: /"Q~m.bi.A~ns/, /"{m%bin=s/
• (US) IPA: /ˈæm.bi.əns/, ˈɑm.bi.ɑns/

Noun

ambiance (plural ambiances)

1. A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.
2. (computer graphics, 3D models) A secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.

Translations

particular mood or atmosphere of an environment

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

  Mandarin: 氣氛 (cmn), 气氛 (cmn) (qìfēn)

• Esperanto: etoso (eo)
• Finnish: ilmapiiri (fi), tunnelma (fi)
• German: Ambiente (de) n

• Hebrew: אווירה (he) (avira) f
• Norwegian: stemning (no) c
• Portuguese: atmosfera (pt) f, ambiência (pt) f
• Serbo-Croatian: ambijent (sh) m
• Spanish: ambiente (es) f, atmósfera (es) f
• Swedish: atmosfär (sv) c, stämning (sv) c, känsla (sv) c

secondary color of a polygon in 3D graphics

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• Serbo-Croatian: ambijent (sh) m
• Latvian: apkārtne

Related terms

• ambient

See also

• atmosphere
• mood

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French

Etymology

ambiant +‎ -ance

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɑ̃.bjɑ̃s/, X-SAMPA: /A~.bjA~s/

• Audio (France, Paris)

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• Homophones: ambiancent, ambiances
• Hyphenation: am‧biance

Noun

ambiance f (plural ambiances)

1. ambiance, atmosphere

Verb

ambiance

1. first-person singular present indicative of ambiancer
2. third-person singular present indicative of ambiancer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ambiancer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ambiancer
5. second-person singular imperative of ambiancer