OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 1970

atmosphere

/ˈæt.məsˌfɪə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aire • atmósfera
The gases surrounding the Earth or any astronomical body.
Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core. It prevents our atmosphere from being…
To most people, the huge ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland are merely water that once was snow. To glaciologists and climatologists, they are storehouses of the Earth's former…
atmósfera
The air in a particular place.
The last hue of crimson had died away in the west, and the depth of the rich purple atmosphere was unbroken.
Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last ano…
ambiente • atmósfera • clima
The apparent mood felt in an environment.
For by the hearth the children sit ⁠Cold in that atmosphere of Death, ⁠And scarce endure to draw the breath, Or like to noiseless phantoms flit: […]
The atmosphere for the football match was great.