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aerial

/ˈɛəɹiəl/

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British/ˈɛːɹɪjəl/

aerial adjective: living or taking place in the air.

aerial: living or taking place in the air
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Adjective

aerial (comparative more aerial, superlative most aerial)

  1. Living or taking place in the air.
    • The seabirds put on an astonishing aerial display.
  2. (archaic, literary) Made up of air or gas; gaseous.
    • A soul [...] was first conceived to be an aerial, or an igneous substance, which animates the body during life, and makes its escape at death [...].1782, Joseph Priestley, Disquisitions relating to matter and spirit, section I
  3. Positioned high up; elevated.
    • The aerial photographs clearly showed the damage caused by the storm.
  4. Ethereal, insubstantial; imaginary.
    • the great Recompence in view, for which the most exalted Minds have with so much Alacrity, sacrifis'd their Quiet, Health, sensual Pleasures, and every inch of themselves, has never been any thing else but the Breath of Man, the Aerial Coyn of Praise.1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees
  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.
    • aerial photography
    • an aerial view of the landscape
  7. Above the ground.

Noun

aerial (plural aerials)

  1. (UK) A rod, wire, or other structure for receiving or transmitting radio, television signals etc.
    Synonyms:
    antenna
  2. A move, as in dancing or skateboarding, involving one or both feet leaving the ground.
    • In their dancing, clubbers were flamboyant. They experimented with new dance steps and improvisations, including risky maneuvers and aerials in which women were flipped into the air.2002, Joseph A. Kotarba, John M. Johnson, Postmodern Existential Sociology, page 78
    Synonyms:
    air step, acrobatic
  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.
    • Hemment is on record as being the first person to film aerials of wildlife – he filmed a flock of wild ducks early in 1911, possibly on Rainey's Louisiana property.2010, Jean Hartley, Africa's Big Five and Other Wildlife Filmmakers
  5. A highly-contrasting visual artifact in the form of a band or ring.
    • Lanczos3 for sharp results. May produce aerials. — Krita 5.2.2

aerial meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

aerial in Hindi

taking place in the air
आकाशीय ākāśīya
device for receiving or transmitting
एन्टेना enṭenā, ऐंटिना a͠iṭinā

aerial in Tamil

device for receiving or transmitting
வானலை வாங்கி vāṉalai vāṅki

aerial in Marathi

device for receiving or transmitting
संवेदानाग्र sauvedānāgra

aerial in Urdu

taking place in the air
ہَوائی havāī
device for receiving or transmitting
اینْٹینا enṭenā, مُحاس muhās
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aerial in Bengali
আকাশ-তার akaś-tar, অ্যান্টেনা ênṭena
aerial in Malayalam
ആന്റിന, ശൃംഗിക
aerial in Punjabi
ਹਵਾਈ havāī
aerial in Tagalog
hangining, antena
aerial in Arabic
جَوِّيّ jawwiyy, هَوَائِيّ hawāʔiyy
aerial in Malay
aerial, antena
aerial in Indonesian
aerial, antena
aerial in Thai
เสาอากาศ sǎo-aa-gàat, สายอากาศ sǎai-aa-gàat
aerial in Vietnamese
ăng-ten, ăngten, ăng ten, dây trời
aerial in Myanmar
ကောင်းကင်ကြိုး kaung:kangkrui:, အင်တင်နာ angtangna

Examples of aerial in a sentence

  • E.g., orthophotography is the geometrical correction of aerial photographs, orthoptics is the treatment of muscular irregularities of the eye, orthodontics is the correcting of misaligned teeth.
  • “The crater and surrounding damage is also not consistent with a JDAM aerial bomb.
  • The hydroalcoholic extracts were obtained from the burdock roots and respectively the aerial parts of birdeye speedwell.

All 40 example sentences with aerial

Synonyms of aerial

Forms of aerial

Adjective
comparativemore aerial
superlativemost aerial
alternative form (dated)aërial
Noun
pluralaerials

Plural of aerial: aerials

Origin of aerial

From Latin āeri(us) + -al, from Ancient Greek ἀέριος (aérios), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”) + -ιος (-ios). By surface analysis, aer- (“air”) + -ial.

Words formed from aerial

Phrases with aerial

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Words that rhyme with aerial

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Questions about aerial

What does aerial mean?
Aerial means living or taking place in the air.
What is aerial in Hindi?
Aerial in Hindi is आकाशीय (ākāśīya), एन्टेना (enṭenā), ऐंटिना (a͠iṭinā). See Aerial meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is aerial?
Aerial can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce aerial?
Aerial is pronounced /ˈɛəɹiəl/ (UK).

Words near aerial in the dictionary

  1. aerenchymatous
  2. aerenchyme
  3. aerenchymous
  4. Aerenia
  5. aereous
  6. aerial
  7. aerial cableway
  8. aerial cableways
  9. aerial camera
  10. aerial cameras
  11. aerial dance

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aerial (page history and authors); aerial (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਹਵਾਈ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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