Air Definition

âr
aired, airing, airs
noun
airs
A colorless, odorless, tasteless, gaseous mixture, mainly nitrogen (approximately 78 percent) and oxygen (approximately 21 percent) with lesser amounts of argon, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, neon, helium, and other gases.
American Heritage
The elastic, invisible mixture of gases (chiefly nitrogen and oxygen, as well as hydrogen, carbon dioxide, argon, neon, helium, etc.) that surrounds the earth; atmosphere.
Webster's New World
This mixture with varying amounts of moisture and particulate matter, enveloping the earth; the atmosphere.
American Heritage
Space above the earth; sky.
Webster's New World
The sky; the firmament.
American Heritage
verb
aired, airing, airs
To expose to the air in order to dry, cool, or freshen; ventilate.
American Heritage
To let air into or through; put where air can dry, cool, freshen, etc.
Webster's New World
To become aired, dried, cooled, etc.
Webster's New World
To make known to others; express publicly.
Aired my complaints.
American Heritage
To make known publicly; publicize.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Of or relating to the air or the movement of air.
An air tube.
American Heritage
Of or by aircraft, air forces, etc.
Air power, air safety.
Webster's New World
Existing or living in the air; aerial.
American Heritage
Powered by compressed air.
An air horn.
American Heritage
Containing or inflated by air.
American Heritage
idiom
air one out
  • To throw a long pass.
American Heritage
in the air
  • Abroad; prevalent:

    Excitement was in the air.

American Heritage
up in the air
  • Not yet decided; uncertain.
American Heritage
give (<i>or</i> get) the air
  • to reject (or be rejected) as a lover
Webster's New World
in the air
  • current or prevalent
  • not decided; not settled; still imaginary
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Air

Noun

Singular:
air
Plural:
airs

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Origin of Air

  • Partly from Middle English air gas, atmosphere (from Old French) (from Latin āēr) (from Greek wer-1 in Indo-European roots) and partly from French air nature, quality, place of origin (from Latin ager place, field agriculture) (and Latin ārea open space, threshing floor area) N., sense 8, from French air tune from Italian aria aria

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English air, eir (“gas, atmosphere”), from Anglo-Norman aeir, eyer, Old French aire, eir, from Latin āēr, from Ancient Greek ἀήρ (aér, “wind, atmosphere”). Displaced native Middle English luft, lift (“air”) (from Old English lyft (“air, atmosphere”)), Middle English loft (“air, upper region”) (from Old Norse lopt (“air, sky, loft”)). More at lift, loft.

    From Wiktionary

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