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
But I was born so high, Our aery buildeth in the Cedar's top, And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
And heard at whiles, with hollow wandering tone, Far off, as by some aery huntsmen blown, Faint-echoing horns, among the mountains wound, Made all the live air tremulous with sound.
From The Poems of William Watson by William Watson
Seizing in his hand his club of heavy knotted oak, he seeks with swift pace the aery mountain steep.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
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
Seen from sophisticated aeries such as New York or London, their politics have often seemed clownish and tinhorn.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 26, 2017
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
In the sprawling lobby, editors, writers and arbiters of style glided skyward to their respective aeries, on escalators flanked by rainwater waterfalls.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2010
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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