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ambiance

See also: Ambiance and ambiancé

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French ambiance.

Pronunciation

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

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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.
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French

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Etymology

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From ambiant +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ambiance f (plural ambiances)

  1. ambiance, atmosphere, environment, milieu
    • 1971, Normand R. Cartier, Le Bossu désenchanté:
      L’individu, quels que soient ses crimes ou ses défaillances, est considéré comme victime de l’hérédité et de l’ambiance, double responsabilité collective.
      No matter his crimes or failings, the individual is considered the victim of heredity and the environment, in both ways a collective responsibility.
    • 1981, Gabriel Domenech, Éloge de l’ivresse, Albin Michel, page 24:
      Quant à l’ambiance, elle est faite de visions terrifiantes, de hurlements de douleur, de dégueulis rosâtres, de vomissements d’injures, de transpirations gluantes, de gémissements épouvantables, de pourrissements vivants, de râles atroces, de décompositions lentes et de morts qui n’en finissent plus […]
      As for the environment, it is made of terrifying visions, shrieks of pain, pinkish puke, vomiting of insults, sticky sweat, appalling moans, living putrefaction, atrocious death rattles, slow decomposition and deaths which no longer end […]

Descendants

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  • → English: ambiance
  • → Turkish: ambiyans

Verb

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ambiance

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

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