ambience

1. 1.

   a particular environment or surrounding influence

   “there was an atmosphere of excitement”

   Synonymsatmosphereambiance

   Broadercondition

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2. 2.

   the atmosphere of an environment

   Synonymsambiance

   Broaderenvironment

Other forms of ambience

plural

ambiences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ambience

What does ambience mean?

ambience means "a particular environment or surrounding influence". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ambience?

ambience has 3 syllables: am-bi-ence. The stress falls on "am". In IPA it is /ˈæmbiəns/.

What is another word for ambience?

Close synonyms include atmosphere, ambiance, ambiance. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ambience a common word?

ambience is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ambience?

1 word rhymes with ambience. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.