AMBIANCE

ambiance, ambience

(noun) the atmosphere of an environment

atmosphere, ambiance, ambience

(noun) a particular environment or surrounding influence; “there was an atmosphere of excitement”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

ambiance (countable and uncountable, plural ambiances)

A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.

(computer graphics, 3D models) A secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

10 January 2025

INTERSPERSION

(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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