atmosphere
/ˈætməsˌfɪɹ/ noun B1- The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
- The air in a particular place.
- 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.
- A unit of measurement for pressure equal to 101325 Pa (symbol: atm), approximately the atmospheric pressure at sea level.
- Extras in a scene who have no spoken lines.
Plural atmospheres
From the library
Rachel undauntedly, head up, eyes blazing, hands clenched, passionate indignation exhaling from her like an atmosphere.
Everything was so strange, so brilliant, so bewildering--the rows of ladies in evening dress, the critical faces, the whole atmosphere of wealth and culture about her.
It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere.
“No, it’s this poisonous atmosphere.”
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