ambienceam‧bi‧ence, ambiance /ˈæmbiəns/ noun [singular] 
The restaurant’s new owners have created a welcoming ambience.
WORD ORIGINambience
Origin:
1900-2000 French ambiance, from ambiant, from Latin; ➔ AMBIENTEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Ambience is as important to a business's success as the product you sell.
- Prices aren't too high at the Osteria, and the ambience is bright and inviting.
- The restaurant's ambience makes you feel you're sitting down to dinner in the dining room of an old friend.
- Winnetka has that small-town ambience of tree-lined streets and a one-street shopping district that you can't find in suburbia.
- After a day in the office, even I felt the benefit of the quiet ambience.
- An ambience of embattled loneliness hovers over most of them.
- Braitman and Ehrenzweig like having it where they live, and feel its cooperative, relaxed ambience is very San Francisco.
- It has 10 floors, with elevators, and a musty, professional ambience.
- The ambience of the pub is equally important.
- The only difference was the ambience of a twentieth-century Arabian hospital.
- They provided background music while people ate and talked, played cards, to give you a pleasant ambience.
- This ambitious and cumbersome attraction was totally out of keeping with the Niagara ambience, but Barnett persisted.
Longman Language Activatora general feeling among a group of people
the general feeling among the people in a place, or the feeling you get from being in a particular place: · The atmosphere in the meeting was tense.· The new owners have tried to give the restaurant a more family-friendly atmosphere.atmosphere of: · We're trying to create an atmosphere of trust between management and staff.heated atmosphere (=when people in a place have very strong and often angry feelings): · the heated atmosphere of the House of Commons
the way a group of people feels about something at a particular time: · Pessimism replaced the mood of democratic optimism that existed before World War I.· Mondovi provoked severe unrest, contributing to the rebellious mood of the entire region.the political/religious etc mood: · Labor leaders figured that given the political mood of the time, Truman was the best candidate.the general/public/popular/national mood (=one felt by most people in a country or region): · In keeping with the general mood of the time, these novels tended to sentimentalize the past.
the feeling you get from a particular place, because of the way it looks, sounds, smells etc, and because of the way people treat you when you are there: · The restaurant's ambience makes you feel you're sitting down to dinner in the dining room of an old friend.· Winnetka has that small-town ambience of tree-lined streets and a one-street shopping district that you can't find in suburbia.· Ambience is as important to a business's success as the product you sell.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The restaurant’s new owners have created a welcoming ambience.
the qualities and character of a particular place and the way these make you feel SYN atmospherepleasant/relaxing/friendly etc ambience The restaurant’s new owners have created a welcoming ambience. The restaurant’s new owners have created a welcoming ambience.