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Atmosphere   /ˈætməsfˌɪr/   Listen
Atmosphere

noun
1.
A particular environment or surrounding influence.  Synonyms: ambiance, ambience.
2.
A unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade.  Synonyms: atm, standard atmosphere, standard pressure.
3.
The mass of air surrounding the Earth.  Synonym: air.  "It was exposed to the air"
4.
The weather or climate at some place.  Synonym: atmospheric state.
5.
The envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body.
6.
A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing.  Synonyms: air, aura.  "The house had a neglected air" , "An atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters" , "The place had an aura of romance"



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"Atmosphere" Quotes from Famous Books



... races undoubtedly were could look with complacency upon any one tasting a dish composed of some part of the captive he had taken in battle. It is not only repulsive as an idea, but seems impossible. Yet much depends on the point of view as well as the atmosphere. According to archeologists, all the primeval races of men could at a pinch feed on human flesh, but after many generations learned to do better without it. We may have simply outgrown the craving, ...
— The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West • Robert E. Anderson
... over the whole earth and over all time. The objects of the poet's thoughts are everywhere; tho the eyes and senses of man are, it is true, his favorite guides, yet he will follow wheresoever he can find an atmosphere of sensation in which to move his wings. Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge—it is as immortal as ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III • Various
... updrawn The fashion and the phantasm of the form It should attach to. There was no such thing.— It was the man she loved, even Lionel, The lover Lionel, the happy Lionel, All joy; who drew the happy atmosphere Of my unhappy sighs, fed with my tears, To him the honey dews of orient hope. Oh! rather had some loathly ghastful brow, Half-bursten from the shroud, in cere cloth bound, The dead skin withering on the fretted bone, The very spirit of Paleness made still paler By ...
— The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Alfred Lord Tennyson
... proprietor the whereabouts of the slipway where Leyden's schooner was, swung off in the given direction. Past wharves and warehouses he strode, throwing back his wide shoulders and inhaling great drafts of spicy ozone as he found himself once again among shipping, in the atmosphere that was meat and drink ...
— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle
... pot-boy, with a sleepy air, caught in that sleepy atmosphere; and chiming his pewter against an area rail with a dull clang, he chanted forth "Pots oho!" with a note as dirge-like as that which in the City of the Plague chanted ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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