aerial

Meaning

Adj

1. Living or taking place in the air.
2. (archaic, literary) Made up of air or gas; gaseous.
3. Positioned high up; elevated.
4. Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary.
5. Pertaining to the air or atmosphere; atmospheric.
6. Pertaining to a vehicle which travels through the air; airborne; relating to or conducted by means of aircraft.
7. Above the ground

Noun

1. (UK) A rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc.
2. A move, as in dancing or skateboarding, involving one or both feet leaving the ground.
3. A move that involves performing a full rotation while in the air, without touching any equipment such as a balance beam or panel mat with one's hands.
4. An aerial photograph.
5. A highly-contrasting visual artifact in the form of a band or ring.

Synonyms

antenna

airy

ethereal

overhead

overground

air

aery

in the air

atmospherical

forward pass

atmospheric

in the sky

transmitting aerial

aeriform

in midair

unreal

wireless aerial

aboveground

antenna

airborne

aired

airplane

✈️

chimeric

fanciful

fiction

flying

light

upper

AE

superterranean

relating to the wind

imaginery

receiving wire

being in the air

Translations

aérien

aéreo

antenne

Antenne

aéreo

aereo

antenna

antena

antenne

antena

antena

aeri

luftig

κεραία

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛɹiəl/

Etymology

From Latin āeri(us) + -al, from Ancient Greek ἀέριος (aérios), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”).