Define atmosphere

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• The atmosphere in the conference room was tense. • It looks like an upscale eatery, but it has a real sports-bar ambience to it. • The restaurant has a casual vibe. • Discussion took place in a climate of deep hostility. • Her snarky remark at the outset set the tone for the rest of the visit. • The tile work gives the shop a very Moroccan feel. • -ance • -ibility • ability • adverse conditions • age • ambience • appearance • character • have it in you idiom • hood • humanity • in • presentation • respect • shape • stock-in-trade • trait • trappings • unaffiliated • undercurrent (Definition of atmosphere from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

1. The mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth or some other celestial body. It is held by the force of gravity and forms various layers at different heights, including the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere. The Earth's atmosphere, called air, is rich in nitrogen and oxygen; that of Venus is mainly carbon dioxide. Compare The American Heritage® Student Science Dictionary, Second Edition. Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. atmosphere - Derives from Greek atmos, "vapor," and sphaira, "globe," and is literally "ball of vapor." See Also: • Air … full of unspoken words, unformulated guilts, a vicious silence, like the moments before a bridge collapses —John Fowles • The atmosphere (of the room) was as vapid as a zephyr wandering over a Vesuvian lava-bed —O. Henry • Evil which hung in … air like an odorless gas —Ross Macdonald • (The circle in which I moved was a self-contained world …) it was like being in the treacly, supersaturated air of a hothouse filled with luxuriant vegetation, or in an aquarium with its own special heating unit and food supply, its own species of plankton —Natascha Wodin • (The whole place seemed restless and troubled and) people were crowding and flitting to and fro, like shadows in an uneasy dream —Charles Dickens • Sensed a wrongness around me, like an alarm clock that had gone off without being set —Maya A...