atmosphere
Syllables: at·mos·phere/ˈætməsˌfɪə/
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British/ˈatməsˌfɪː/
atmosphere noun: the gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
Noun
atmosphere (countable and uncountable, plural atmospheres)
- The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
- We may smile now to hear witchcraft spoken seriously of; but we forget perhaps that a belief in it is like a belief in the after appearance of the dead among the blue waters, the green graves, the still starry atmosphere and the great shadowy woods of our earth; […]1828, John Neal, chapter I, in Rachel Dyer: A North American Story, Portland, Me.: Shirley and Hyde, →OCLC, page 22
- To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former atmospheres.1988 April 14, Richard Fifield, “Frozen assets of the ice cores”, in New Scientist, number 1608, page 28
- The air in a particular place.
- The last hue of crimson had died away in the west, and the depth of the rich purple atmosphere was unbroken.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 2
- 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;[…].1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co....
- The conditions (such as music, illumination, etc.) that can influence the mood felt in an environment.
- The apparent mood felt in an environment.
- The atmosphere for the football match was great.
- For by the hearth the children sit / Cold in that atmosphere of Death, / And scarce endure to draw the breath, / Or like to noiseless phantoms flit: […]1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 33
- A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm), approximately the atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- A process for preparing normally solid high molecular weight, hydrocarbon polymers which comprises heating and reacting carbon monoxide with hydrogen at a temperature of 125 ° to 350 °C, under a pressure of at least 30 atmospheres and in contact with a phosphomolybdic compound represented by the...1959, The Canadian Patent Office Record and Register of Copyrights, volume 87, page 6658
- Extras in a scene who have no spoken lines.
- Central Casting is in the business of extras, also known as atmosphere or background actors […]2006, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 51, number 2, page 100
- "It is estimated conservatively that there are some 50,000 would-be film extras in and around the celluloid capital, persons who would jump at the opportunity to appear as atmosphere in pictures," Scott concluded.2013, Kerry Segrave, Extras of Early Hollywood: A History of the Crowd, 1913-1945, page 38
Proper noun capitalized: ATmosphere
the ATmosphere
- The distributed social media network of federated services using the AT Protocol.
- In the ATmosphere, you don't have to make a tradeoff. You can use the service which has better moderation and still reach the accounts you want, even if they host their account somewhere else and agreed to some other TOS than you.2026 January 22, Tynan Purdy, “I Do Not Accept Your TOS”, in Tynan's Leaflets
atmosphere meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
atmosphere in Hindi
- environment, conditions, ambience
- वातावरण vātāvraṇ
- gases surrounding the Earth
- वायुमण्डल vāyumaṇḍal, वायुमंडल vāyumaṇḍal, वातावरण vātāvraṇ
- air in a particular place
- वायुमंडल vāyumaṇḍal, वातावरण vātāvraṇ
- mood or feeling
- मनोदशा manodśā
atmosphere in Tamil
- gases surrounding the Earth
- ககனம் kakaṉam
atmosphere in Marathi
- वातावरणाचे वातावरण
atmosphere in Urdu
- gases surrounding the Earth
- کُرَۂ ہَوائی kura-yi havāī, کُرَۂ ہَوا kura-yi havā
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- atmosphere in Bengali
- বায়ুমণ্ডল baẏumonḍol
- atmosphere in Telugu
- వాతావరణము vātāvaraṇamu, వాతావరణం vātāvaraṇaṁ
- atmosphere in Malayalam
- അന്തരീക്ഷം antarīkṣaṁ
- atmosphere in Kannada
- ವಾತಾವರಣ, ವಾಯುಮಂಡಲ, ಗಾಳಿಹೊದಿಕೆ, ಸುತ್ತಾವಿ
- atmosphere in Punjabi
- ਮਾਹੌਲ, ਵਾਯੂਮੰਡਲ
- atmosphere in Gujarati
- વાતાવરણ vātāvraṇ
- atmosphere in Odia
- ବାଯ଼ୁମଣ୍ଡଳ
- atmosphere in Sanskrit
- वायुमण्डलम् vāyumaṇḍalam
- atmosphere in Nepali
- वायुमण्डल
- atmosphere in Pashto
- دمامه damāma, هواويجه hawāweja
- atmosphere in Tagalog
- kaanginan, kahanginan
- atmosphere in Arabic
- جَو jaw, غِلَاف جَوِّيّ ḡilāf jawwiyy
- atmosphere in Malay
- atmosfera, udarakasa, suasana
- atmosphere in Indonesian
- situasi, atmosfer, udarakasa, hawa
- atmosphere in Thai
- บรรยากาศ ban-yaa-gàat
- atmosphere in Vietnamese
- không khí, bầu không khí, khí quyển
- atmosphere in Myanmar
- လေထု lehtu.
Examples of atmosphere in a sentence
- It prevents our atmosphere from being stripped away by solar winds blasting it from the sun.2023 December 27, Mindy Weisberger, “Ancient bricks baked when Nebuchadnezzar II was king absorbed a power surge in Earth’s magnetic...
- Oh, what an atmosphere / I love a party with a happy atmosphere1984, Ben Findon, Eddie Tucker, Steve Rodway, “Atmosphere”, in I Love a Party, performed by Russ Abbot:
- By the way, I discovered that we were not extras but background, as far as the director was concerned; and for the producer, we were atmosphere.2015, William R. Phillippe, The Pastor's Diary:
Synonyms of atmosphere
Forms of atmosphere
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | atmospheres |
| alternative form (archaic) | atmosphaere |
| alternative form (archaic) | atmosphære |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | Atmosphere |
| alternative form | atmosphere |
Origin of atmosphere
Borrowed from French atmosphère, from New Latin atmosphaera, from Ancient Greek ἀτμός (atmós, “steam”) + σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “sphere”); corresponding to atmo- + -sphere.
Blend of AT Protocol + atmosphere.
Words formed from atmosphere
- atmosphered
- atmosphereless
- atmospherial
- atmospherical
- atmospherization
- atmospherology
- controlled atmosphere
- endoatmosphere
- exoatmosphere
- lower atmosphere
- middle atmosphere
- modified atmosphere
- palaeoatmosphere
- paleoatmosphere
- protoatmosphere
- subatmosphere
- upper atmosphere
- you could cut the atmosphere with a knife
Questions about atmosphere
- What does atmosphere mean?
- Atmosphere means the gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
- What is atmosphere in Hindi?
- Atmosphere in Hindi is वातावरण (vātāvraṇ), वायुमंडल (vāyumaṇḍal), वायुमण्डल (vāyumaṇḍal). See Atmosphere meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use atmosphere in a sentence?
- It prevents our atmosphere from being stripped away by solar winds blasting it from the sun.
- What part of speech is atmosphere?
- Atmosphere can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce atmosphere?
- Atmosphere is pronounced /ˈætməsˌfɪə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of atmosphere?
- The plural of atmosphere is atmospheres.
Words near atmosphere in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: atmosphere (page history and authors); ATmosphere (page history and authors); atmosphere (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); atmosphere (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); atmosphere (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); atmosphere (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); atmosphere (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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