AMBIANCE
Dictionary entry overview: What does ambiance mean?
• AMBIANCE (noun)
The noun AMBIANCE has 2 senses:
1. a particular environment or surrounding influence
2. the atmosphere of an environment
Familiarity information: AMBIANCE used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• AMBIANCE (noun)
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)
vibe; vibration (a distinctive emotional atmosphere; sensed intuitively)
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)
