Meanings
plural ambiances · alternative ambience
- countableuncountableA particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.
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.
1979 April 14, Roger L. Winters, “Gay Politics”, in Gay Community News, page 5 - countableuncountablecomputer graphicsOf a three-dimensional model, a secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna particular environment or surrounding influence
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchambiance
- Englishambiance
Unadapted borrowing from French ambiance.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian атмосфера
- атмосфера (atmosfera)particular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Catalan ambient
- ambientparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Chinese Mandarin 氣氛 /气氛, 氛围
- 氣氛 /气氛 (qìfēn)particular mood or atmosphere of an environment
- 氛围particular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Dutch sfeer
- sfeerparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Esperanto etoso
- etosoparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Finnish ilmapiiri, tunnelma
- ilmapiiriparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
- tunnelmaparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
German Stimmung, Atmosphäre
- Stimmungparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
- Atmosphäreparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
- Ambienteparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
- Umgebungparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
- Ambianceparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Greek ατμόσφαιρα
- ατμόσφαιρα (atmósfaira)particular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Hebrew אווירה
- אווירה (avira)particular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Latvian atmosfēra
- atmosfēraparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Norwegian stemning
- stemningparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Polish atmosfera
- atmosferaparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Portuguese atmosfera, ambiência
- atmosferaparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
- ambiênciaparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Russian обстано́вка, атмосфе́ра
- обстано́вка (obstanóvka)particular mood or atmosphere of an environment
- атмосфе́ра (atmosféra)particular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Spanish ambiente, atmósfera
- ambienteparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
- atmósferaparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
- ambientaciónparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Swedish atmosfär, stämning
- atmosfärparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
- stämningparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
- känslaparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Turkish ambiyans
- ambiyansparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Welsh awyrgylch
- awyrgylchparticular mood or atmosphere of an environment
Cite this entry
ambiance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ambiance
“ambiance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ambiance. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ambiance,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ambiance.
Source: ambiance on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.