atmosphere
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
atmosphere (plural atmospheres)
- The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
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- The air in a particular place.
- 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546 ↗; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860 ↗, page 0016 ↗:
- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
- (figuratively) The apparent mood felt in an environment.
- Synonyms: air, ambiance, feeling, mood
- A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm)
- French: atmosphère
- German: Atmosphäre
- Portuguese: atmosfera
- Russian: атмосфе́ра
- Spanish: atmósfera, aire
- French: atmosphère
- Portuguese: atmosfera
- Russian: атмосфе́ра
- Spanish: atmósfera
- French: ambiance
- German: Atmosphäre
- Portuguese: atmosfera, ambiente
- Russian: атмосфе́ра
- Spanish: atmósfera, ambiente, clima
- French: atmosphère
- German: Atmosphäre
- Portuguese: atmosfera, atmosfera física
- Russian: атмосфе́ра
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