- a variation of aerie.
aery
1 Americanadjective
noun
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aeries
plural
adjective
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a variant spelling of airy
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lofty, insubstantial, or visionary
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Etymology
Origin of aery
1580–90; < Latin āerius < Greek āérios, equivalent to āer- aer- + -ios adj. suffix
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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
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 Dallas Lore Sharp
Each aery Siren now hath gott her song, To whom the merry lambes doe tripp along The laughing meades, as joy full to behold Their winter coates couer'd with naming gold.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
And if the lark—who is Too high for earth—may vie for praise with thee In aery rhapsody, yet it is his To sing of day and joy, while thou of sorrow And night o'erhovering singest.
From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice
It’s only in the last several years that academic researchers have been leaving the university aeries and flocking to industry.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
Many of the cave interiors have been playfully reimagined; in some, ceilings have been knocked out, creating three-story aeries.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 20, 2015
When People magazine sought homey shots of Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford or Robert Redford in their mountain aeries, Mr. Regan was often asked to take the job.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2012
Governments should encourage people to live in modestly sized urban aeries instead of bribing home buyers into big suburban McMansions.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2011
On the narrow peninsula they met hundreds of other raptors going north to their aeries, their nests and scrapes.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Beginning, forebodingly, with an aeriest, which hinted at award show decadence, the dancer-acrobatics throughout the song closed in one Abel Tesfaye, heightening the tension in the song.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 29, 2016
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