aery
1 Americanadjective
noun
adjective
-
a variant spelling of airy
-
lofty, insubstantial, or visionary
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of aery
1580–90; < Latin āerius < Greek āérios, equivalent to āer- aer- + -ios adj. suffix
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
And I will purge thy mortal grossness so,That thou shalt like an aery spirit go.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 21, 2015
Once, during the Spanish civil war, an anticlerical mob tried to destroy the building, but for all its look of aery fantasy, they could not budge a stone or dislodge a single ornament.
From Time Magazine Archive
Also the biting ants may pursue you up to your aery perch and take small but effective bites in many itchable but unscratchable points.
From In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by McCutcheon, John T.
The aery of the Yosemite eagle is the most sublimely defiant of things built by bird, or beast, or man.
From Roof and Meadow by Sharp, Dallas Lore
The Indian legend referred to is of a fearful, winged monster, who swooped down upon his prey, making his aery on the great cliffs at Alton.
From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by Knowles, J. Harris (John Harris)
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
