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English
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Etymology
From French atmosphère, from New Latin atmosphaera, from Ancient Greek ἀτμός (atmós, “steam”) + σφαῖρα (sphaîra, “sphere”); corresponding to atmo- + -sphere.
Pronunciation
Noun
atmosphere (countable and uncountable, plural atmospheres)
- The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
- Meronyms: see Thesaurus:atmosphere
- Coordinate terms: hydrosphere, biosphere
- The air in a particular place.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. , volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 2:The last hue of crimson had died away in the west, and the depth of the rich purple atmosphere was unbroken.
1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in 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., , , →OCLC, 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 conditions (such as music, illumination etc.) that can influence the mood felt in an environment.
- Synonyms: air, ambiance
- (figuratively) The apparent mood felt in an environment.
- Synonyms: feeling, mood
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto XX, page 33: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: […]
1984, Ben Findon, Eddie Tucker, Steve Rodway (lyrics and music), “Atmosphere”, in I Love a Party, performed by Russ Abbot:Oh, what an atmosphere / I love a party with a happy atmosphere
- A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm), approximately the atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- (television, film, uncountable) Extras in a scene who have no spoken lines.
2006, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 51, number 2, page 100:Central Casting is in the business of extras, also known as atmosphere or background actors […]
2013, Kerry Segrave, Extras of Early Hollywood: A History of the Crowd, 1913-1945, page 38:"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.
2015, William R. Phillippe, The Pastor's Diary: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.
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Translations
gases surrounding the Earth
- Afrikaans: atmosfeer (af)
- Albanian: atmosferë (sq) f
- Amharic: ከባቢ አየር (käbabi ʾäyär)
- Arabic: جَو m (jaw), غِلَاف جَوِّيّ (ar) m (ḡilāf jawwiyy)
- Hijazi Arabic: غلاف جوي m (ḡilāf jawwi)
- Armenian: մթնոլորտ (hy) (mtʻnolort), ատմոսֆերա (hy) (atmosfera)
- Asturian: atmósfera (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: atmosfer
- Bashkir: атмосфера (atmosfera)
- Belarusian: атмасфе́ра f (atmasfjéra), атмасфэ́ра f (atmasféra)
- Bengali: বায়ুমণ্ডল (bn) (baẏumonḍol)
- Breton: aergelc’h m
- Bulgarian: атмосфе́ра (bg) f (atmosféra)
- Burmese: လေထု (my) (lehtu.)
- Catalan: atmosfera (ca) f, aerosfera f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 大氣層/大气层 (daai6 hei3 cang4)
- Hokkien: 大氣/大气 (zh-min-nan) (tāi-khì)
- Mandarin: 大氣/大气 (zh), 氣圈/气圈 (zh) (qìquān), 大氣層/大气层 (zh) (dàqìcéng)
- Czech: atmosféra (cs), ovzduší (cs)
- Danish: atmosfære (da) c
- Dutch: atmosfeer (nl) m, dampkring (nl) m
- Esperanto: atmosfero
- Estonian: atmosfäär (et), õhkkond (et), õhustik (et)
- Farefare: dũnia pebsʋm
- Finnish: ilmakehä (fi), atmosfääri (fi)
- French: atmosphère (fr) m
- Galician: atmosfera (gl) f
- Georgian: ატმოსფერო (aṭmospero)
- German: Atmosphäre (de) f
- Greek: ατμόσφαιρα (el) f (atmósfaira)
- Gujarati: વાતાવરણ m (vātāvraṇ)
- Hawaiian: lewa
- Hebrew: אטמוספירה \ אַטְמוֹסְפֶרָה (he) f (atmosfera)
- Hindi: वायुमण्डल (hi) m (vāyumaṇḍal), वायुमंडल (hi) m (vāyumaṇḍal), वातावरण (hi) m (vātāvraṇ)
- Hungarian: atmoszféra (hu), légkör (hu)
- Iban: atmosfera
- Icelandic: andrúmsloft (is) n, lofthjúpur (is) n
- Ido: atmosfero (io)
- Indonesian: atmosfer (id)
- Interlingua: atmosphera
- Irish: atmaisféar, aerbhrat m
- Italian: atmosfera (it) f
- Japanese: 大気 (ja) (たいき, taiki), 大気圏 (ja) (たいきけん, taikiken)
- Kalmyk: атмосфер (atmosfer)
- Kazakh: атмосфера (atmosfera)
- Khmer: បរិយាកាស (km) (paʼreyaakaah)
- Korean: 대기(大氣) (ko) (daegi), 대기권(大氣圈) (ko) (daegigwon)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: keşûhewa (ku) m, atmosfer (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: атмосфера (ky) (atmosfera)
- Lao: ບັນຍາກາດ (lo) (ban nyā kāt)
- Latin: atmosphaera f
- Latvian: atmosfēra (lv) f
- Lithuanian: atmosfera f
- Macedonian: атмосфе́ра (mk) f (atmosféra)
- Malay: atmosfera (ms)
- Malayalam: അന്തരീക്ഷം (ml) (antarīkṣaṁ)
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy: musikisq inan
- Maltese: atmosfera f
- Maori: kōhauhau
- Mapudungun: neyenmapu
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: агаар мандал (agaar mandal), атмосфер (atmosfer)
- Norman: atmosphère m (Guernsey), atmosphéthe m (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: atmosfære (no) m
- Nynorsk: atmosfære m
- Occitan: atmosfèra (oc) f
- Parthian: 𐭀𐭍𐭕𐭓𐭅𐭀𐭆 (ʾntrwʾz /andarwāz/)
- Pashto: دمامه (ps) f (damāma), هواويجه f (hawāweja)
- Persian: اَندَروا (fa) (andarvâ), جَو (fa) (jav), اَتمُسفِر (fa) (atmosfer)
- Polish: atmosfera (pl) f
- Portuguese: atmosfera (pt) f
- Romanian: atmosferă (ro) f
- Russian: атмосфе́ра (ru) f (atmosféra)
- Sanskrit: वायुमण्डलम् n (vāyumaṇḍalam)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: атмосфе́ра f
- Roman: atmosféra (sh) f
- Slovak: atmosféra (sk) f, ovzdušie n
- Slovene: atmosfera (sl) f, ozračje (sl) n
- Spanish: atmósfera (es) f, aire (es) m
- Swahili: angahewa
- Swedish: atmosfär (sv) c
- Tagalog: kaanginan, kahanginan
- Tajik: атмосфера (atmosfera)
- Tamil: ககனம் (ta) (kakaṉam)
- Tatar: атмосфера (atmosfera)
- Telugu: వాతావరణము (te) (vātāvaraṇamu)
- Thai: บรรยากาศ (th) (ban-yaa-gàat)
- Tigrinya: ሃዋህው (hawahw)
- Turkish: atmosfer (tr), havaküre
- Turkmen: atmosfera (tk)
- Tuvan: атмосфера (atmosfera)
- Ukrainian: атмосфе́ра (uk) f (atmosféra)
- Urdu: کُرہ ہَوائی (kore havāī)
- Uyghur: ئاتموسفېرا (atmosfëra)
- Uzbek: atmosfera (uz)
- Vietnamese: khí quyển (vi)
- Volapük: lutem (vo)
- Welsh: awyrgylch m
- Yiddish: אַטמאָספֿער f (atmosfer), אַטמאָספֿערע f (atmosfere)
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air in a particular place
environment, conditions, ambience
mood or feeling
- Albanian: atmosferë (sq) f
- Arabic: جَو (jaw)
- Asturian: atmósfera (ast) f
- Azerbaijani: ab-hava (az), ovqat (az)
- Belarusian: атмасфе́ра f (atmasfjéra), атмасфэ́ра f (atmasféra)
- Bulgarian: атмосфе́ра (bg) f (atmosféra)
- Catalan: atmosfera (ca) f, ambient (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 氣氛/气氛 (zh) (qìfēn), 氛圍/氛围 (zh) (fēnwéi), 情調/情调 (zh) (qíngdiào)
- Czech: atmosféra (cs)
- Danish: atmosfære (da) c
- Dutch: sfeer (nl) m
- Esperanto: etoso
- Estonian: õhkkond (et), õhustik (et), atmosfäär (et), meeleolu
- Finnish: ilmapiiri (fi), tunnelma (fi), henki (fi)
- French: ambiance (fr) f
- Galician: atmosfera (gl) f, ambiente (gl) m
- Georgian: ატმოსფერო (aṭmospero), გარემო (garemo)
- German: Atmosphäre (de) f
- Greek: ατμόσφαιρα (el) f (atmósfaira)
- Hebrew: אווירה / אֲוִירָה (he) f (avirá)
- Hungarian: hangulat (hu)
- Indonesian: atmosfer (id), suasana (id), situasi (id)
- Interlingua: atmosphera, ambiente
- Japanese: 雰囲気 (ja) (ふんいき, fun'iki)
- Korean: 분위기(雰圍氣) (ko) (bunwigi)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: atmosfer (ku) f
- Lithuanian: atmosfera f
- Malay: suasana
- Maltese: atmosfera, burdata
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: atmosfære (no) m
- Nynorsk: atmosfære m
- Persian: اَندَروا (fa) (andarvâ), جَو (fa) (jav)
- Polish: atmosfera (pl) f, nastrój (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: atmosfera (pt) f, ambiente (pt) m
- Romanian: atmosferă (ro) f, ambient (ro) m, ambianță (ro) f
- Russian: настрое́ние (ru) n (nastrojénije), настро́й (ru) m (nastrój)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: у̏гођа̄ј m, атмосфе́ра f
- Roman: ȕgođāj (sh) m, atmosféra (sh) f
- Spanish: atmósfera (es) f, ambiente (es) m, clima (es) m
- Swedish: atmosfär (sv) c
- Telugu: వాతావరణం (te) (vātāvaraṇaṁ)
- Turkish: atmosfer (tr)
- Ukrainian: атмосфе́ра (uk) f (atmosféra)
- Vietnamese: bầu không khí, không khí (vi)
- Volapük: dälod
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a unit of measurement for pressure
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