Meaning

4 senses
  1. Encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping.

    A cup of warm tea eventually cools to the ambient temperature.

    окружа́ющийokružájuščij

    completely enveloping

  2. Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric.

  3. Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature.

    ambient food

    ambient warehousing

  4. Containing objects or describing a setting that one is interested in.

Examples

10 sentences
  1. I like listening to ambient music at night.

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  2. My brother listens to a music genre called ambient.

  3. The ambient music made her fly into a rage.

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  4. The soundtracks of most video games are mostly ambient music.

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  5. The ambient noise around me went silent in a matter of seconds.

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
encompassing on all sides:

Origin

From Latin ambiēns (“going around”), from ambiō (“go around”).

From Latin ambiēns (“going around”), from ambiō (“go around”).

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Forms

more ambient, most ambient
Comparativemore ambient Lesson
Superlativemost ambient Lesson

regular

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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