Definitions for aery

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aery aer·y

Spelling: [air-ee, ey-uh-ree]

IPA: /ˈɛər i, ˈeɪ ə ri/

Aery is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in aery (aery).

Definitions for aery

noun

1. aerie.
2. the nest of a bird of prey, as an eagle or a hawk.
3. a lofty nest of any large bird.
4. a house, fortress, or the like, located high on a hill or mountain.
5. an apartment or office on a high floor in a high-rise building:
6. Obsolete. the brood in a nest, especially of a bird of prey.

adjective

1. ethereal; aerial.

Origin of aery

1580-90; Latin āerius Greek āérios, equivalent to āer- aer- + -ios adj. suffix

Examples for aery

Not Age but Youth of centuries smiles from gray walls and aery pinnacles upon the joyous children of To-day.

Seizing in his hand his club of heavy knotted oak, he seeks with swift pace the aery mountain steep.

She spoke; but the other sped lightly down the aery sky, girt about with dark whirlwind on her echoing way.

The aery of the Yosemite eagle is the most sublimely defiant of things built by bird, or beast, or man.

The sunset begins to burn red behind Magdalen Tower, all the towers and aery pinnacles rise blue yet distinct against it.

The lovers, now that in an aery body they must sorrow for unconsummated love, are 'tangled up as the grass patterns are tangled.'