Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Airy; breezy; exposed to the air; elevated; lofty; ethereal; visionary.
- n. The nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk; hence, a lofty nest of any large bird.
- n. The brood in the nest; the young of a bird of prey; figuratively, children.
- n. An elevated habitation or situation.
- To build or have an aery.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An aerie.
- adj. Poetic Aërial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air
- n. any habitation at a high altitude
- n. the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
Etymologies
- Latin āerius, of the air; see aerial. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The whole EP was built around a basic idea, a kind of "aery" sound element that served as the spine for four completely different clones.”
“On an afternoon of adventurism, from the soldier's aery the three were easy prey.”
“Thus in ‘aethereal,’ ‘paean,’ and one or two more words the “ae” will be found, and ‘airy’ still appears as ‘aery’.”
“All around them the meteors briefly dived and vanished, as tiny points of stardust in the long travel of their cloud struck the aery halo of the earth, burned bright and were gone.”
“She turned toward the skull, which still glowed and pulsed on the floor, and was reaching a booted toe tentatively toward it, when the man who called himself Techotl sprang forward with aery.”
“The sunset begins to burn red behind Magdalen Tower, all the towers and aery pinnacles rise blue yet distinct against it.”
“Not Age but Youth of centuries smiles from gray walls and aery pinnacles upon the joyous children of To-day.”
“Kenkenes from his aery watched her, noting with a softening countenance the almost maternal love that beautified her face.”
“From his aery Kenkenes watched this particular phase of her tasks with interest.”
“Only to look down on her again, unseen, from his aery in the rocks over the valley!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘aery’.
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Fairylike
fairylike, enchanted, pixieish, pixyish, impish, mischievous, fluttery, magical, bewitching, enchanting, fey, otherworldly and 126 more...
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These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2042 more...
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ivancapistrano's list
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 842 more...
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flannagan's Words
netop, kenspeckle, loden, framboise, providence, milquetoast, schism, cadence, thrush, asphodel, clandestine, aesthete and 196 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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conglomeration
wherewithal, wan, zoonotic, zoonosis, nebulous, nefarious, nascent, quiescent, quell, undercroft, unwitting, unutterable and 658 more...
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Bianca's Words
perfidious, vituperate, ribald, macabre, lament, eloquence, poignant, adage, finesse, vespertine, oxymoron, aesthetic and 117 more...
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poetic & exotic
gloaming, nacreous, limpid, lambent, limn, elegiac, arenaceous, boreal, harlequin, sphinx, alfresco, coruscate and 109 more...
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Unearthly
pretty much
eldritch, starriness, evanescent, evanescence, earthshine, ephemeral, foretoken, aery, ethereal, dystopia, sibyl, supernal and 4 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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gracetherein's Words
fratricide, polyamorous, triage, pedant, hinky, inundate, dearth, segue, dipsomaniac, gravid, portcullis, mamihlapinatapai and 8 more...
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The Homeworld Codex Dictionary
Terminology from my world-building project that will need to be properly lexiconned and defined one day.
the people, the composer, pentaverse, imaginary plane, theoretical plane, real plane, whorl, wind, arc, corridor, deep-field, bright-field and 44 more...
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pynchonesque
fondue, codicil, variorum, blowgun, disk jockey, malfunctioning, convoluted, grabassing, tranquilizers, hieroglyphic, hypodermic, diffusion and 83 more...
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vaudevillianry
winsome, reverie, ephemeral, aery, charnel, convoluted, honeydew, sycamore, epeolatry, calliope, laconic, transcendent and 73 more...
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