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Definitions: Ambiance |
AmbianceNoun1. A particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement". 2. The atmosphere of an environment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Sports & Leisure | Will be eligible for consolation play throughout the day. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: AmbianceSynonyms: ambience (n), atmosphere (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ambiance |
| Non-English Usage: "Ambiance" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (ambiance, ambience, atmosphere, environment, ethos, mood, vibes). |
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Lyrics | Ambiance and vanity. (December; performing artist: Collective Soul) | |
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| "Ambiance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ambiance" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ambiance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | ambiance (ambience). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | ambiente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | ατμόσφαιρα (air, atmosphere, tone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | アンド回路 (ambassador, amber, ambivalence, ambulance, amp, amphetamine, amplifier, ampoule, AND circuit, boredom, enfants terribles, impromptu, umber, umbrella cut, umpire, unbalance, unbelievable, unfair, unhappy, unparser, unplayable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アン"アンス . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ambianceay среда (ambience, environment, environs, habitat, medium, mid-week, milieu, surroundings, Wednesday). (various references) ambians (ambience), ortam (ambience, ambient, ambit, aroma, atmosphere, atmospheric, environment, medium, occasion, stage), hava (aerial, aero-, air, airs, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, atmospheric, aura, climate, Flavor, flavour, mood, ostentation, shades, showing off, side, sky, splash, splurge, strain, swank, vanity, weather, wind), çevre (adjacencies, ambience, ambient, ambit, atmosphere, circle, circumference, climate, compass, contour, domain, ecological, entourage, environment, environmental, girth, milieu, neighborhood, neighbourhood, perimeter, periphery, precinct, precincts, premises, purlieus, radius, region, society, sphere, surroundings, vicinity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "ambiance": ambiances. (additional references) | |
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"Ambiance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abience, ambviance, antiacne, ombiance. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ambiance" (pronounced a"mbēuns) |
| 7 | a" m b ē u n s | ambience. |
| 4 | -ē u n s | audience, dalliance, deviance, disobedience, expedience, experience, inexperience, invariance, obedience, prescience, radiance, resilience, subservience, transience, variance. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-m-n" | |
-1 letter: anaemic. | |
-2 letters: ameban, amebic, anemia, anemic, cabman, cabmen, caiman, cambia, cinema, iceman, maniac. | |
-3 letters: abaci, abeam, aecia, amain, ameba, amice, amine, amnia, amnic, anima, anime, cabin, ceiba, mania, manic, minae, mince. | |
-4 letters: acme, acne, amen, amia, amie, amin, bane, bani, beam, bean, bema, bice, bima, bine, cain, came, cane, cine, emic, iamb, mabe, mace. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-e-i-m-n" | |
+1 letter: ambiances, imbalance. | |
+2 letters: imbalanced, imbalances, machinable, misbalance. | |
+3 letters: ambivalence, chamberlain, machineable, misbalanced, misbalances. | |
+4 letters: ambivalences, amicableness, amphisbaenic, cabinetmaker, chamberlains, incomparable, mechanizable, microbalance. | |
+5 letters: antimetabolic, biomechanical, cabinetmakers, cabinetmaking, companionable, flamboyancies, lamellibranch, microbalances, rhabdomancies, unimpeachable, unimpeachably, unreclaimable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 6D 62 69 61 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -- -... .. .- -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101101 01100010 01101001 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A m b i a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 006D 0062 0069 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3579687567806971 |
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