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noun.
a particular environment or surrounding influence
noun.
the atmosphere of an environment
Word Usage
"Sorry to say that despite how great the ambience is and enjoyable the food and service was, I would not go back so fast given the negative feelings we all had related to exhorbitant gouging with NO heads-up from our waiter. john Says:"