different between ambiance vs laureate

English

Alternative forms

• ambience

Etymology

Borrowed from French ambiance.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æm.bi.?ns/, /??m.bi.?ns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æm.bi.?ns/, /??m.bi.?ns/

Noun

ambiance (countable and uncountable, plural ambiances)

1. A particular mood or atmosphere of an environment or surrounding influence.
2. (computer graphics, 3D models) A secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.

Related terms

• ambient

Translations

See also

• atmosphere
• mood

French

Etymology

ambiant +? -ance

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.bj??s/
• Homophones: ambiancent, ambiances
• Hyphenation: am?biance
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

ambiance f (plural ambiances)

1. ambiance, atmosphere

Verb

ambiance

1. first-person singular present indicative of ambiancer
2. third-person singular present indicative of ambiancer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ambiancer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ambiancer
5. second-person singular imperative of ambiancer

Further reading

• “ambiance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laureatus, from laurea (“laurel tree”), from laureus (“of laurel”), from laurus (“laurel”). Compare French lauréat.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?.?i.?t/, /?l???.i.?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l??.i.?t/, /?l??.i.?t/

Adjective

laureate (not comparable)

1. (sometimes postpositive) Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
   • 2007, Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt

     Although the post of poet laureate as we know it was not established until John Dryden's appointment in 1668,

Derived terms

• poet laureate
• Nobel laureate

Translations

Noun

laureate (plural laureates)

1. (dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.
   • a. 1658, John Cleveland, An Elegy to Ben Johnson

     a learn'd laureate

2. A graduate of a university.

Translations

Verb

laureate (third-person singular simple present laureates, present participle laureating, simple past and past participle laureated)

1. (intransitive) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.

Translations

Related terms

• lauraceous
• laurel
• laurestine
• lauriferous

Further reading

• laureate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• laureate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• laureate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Italian

Adjective

laureate

1. feminine plural of laureato

Noun

laureate f

1. plural of laureata

Verb

laureate

1. feminine plural of laureato

Latin

Adjective

laure?te

1. vocative masculine singular of laure?tus