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Aerie

Definitions: Aerie

Aerie

Noun

1. The lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle).

2. Any habitation at a high altitude.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "aerie" was first used: 15th century. (references)

Etymology: Aerie \Ae"rie\, noun. [from Old English expression aire, eire, air, nest, also origin, descent, Old French aire, Late Latin expression area, aera, nest of bird of prey, perhaps from Latin area an open space (for birds of prey like to build their nests on flat and open spaces on the top of high rocks). Compare to Area.]. (Websters 1913)



Synonyms: Aerie

Synonyms: aery (n), eyrie (n), eyry (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Aerie

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

Nest, nidus, snuggery; arbor, bower; lair, den, cave, hole, hiding place, cell, sanctum sanctorum, aerie, eyrie, eyry, rookery, hive; covert, resort, retreat, perch, roost; nidification; kala jagah.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Aerie

English words defined with "aerie": AyryEirie. (references)

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Modern Usage: Aerie

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Sometimes some people, no matter how much you love them and no matter what you try to do, getthey get taken away. You're young, Aerie. You'll figure it out soon enough. (Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn; writing credit: Vernica Suárez)

Movie/TV Titles

Earthen Aerie (1995)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Aerie

DomainTitle

Books

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Aerie

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Bald Eagle in aerie.Credit: Alaska Image Library.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aerie

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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59

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6

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3

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Aerie

Language Translations for "aerie"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kala (acropolis, aery, Castle, citadel, Fort, fortress, hold, presidio, stronghold, tower), kështjellë (aery, Castle, stronghold, tower), fole (aery, chase, mortise, nest, nidus, pad, socket). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏وكر نسر, ‏بيت فوق مرتفع. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

гнездо на хищна птица (aery), орлово гнездо (aery, eyrie), люпило на хищна птица (aery). (various references)

   

French

  

aire d'aigle, aire. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

φωλεά αετού. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sasfészek (eyrie, eyry). (various references)

   

Italian

  

nido di aquila. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

둥지 (Aery, Eyrie, Eyries, NEST). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aerieay

   

Portuguese

  

ninho de ave de rapina, ninhada de ave de rapina, muito alto (high-power, sky high, topless, towering). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pui (baby, calf, chick, chicken, chuck, cub, dear, fledgeling, get, nestling, whelp, young), locuinţã pe o stâncã, cuib (center, centre, den, home, hotbed, nest). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

гнездо хищной птицы, выводок хищной птицы (aery), выводок (aery, brood, clutch, hatch, litter, nest). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

orlovsko gnezdo, leglo (brood, covey, hatch, hotbed, roost, source), gnezdo ptice grabljivice. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

aguilera (aery, eyrie), nidada (aery, brood, nest, sitting). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rovfågels näste (aery, eyrie), örnbo (aery, eyrie). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yüksek kuş yuvası, tepedeki ev, kartal yuvası (eyrie, eyry). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

фортеця на недоступній скелі, гніздо хижака, виводок (brood, litter, nest), замок (lock). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Aerie

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

area. (various references)

Middle English1100-1500

ey. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Aerie

Derivations

Words beginning with "aerie": aeried, aerier, aeries, aeriest. (additional references)

Words ending with "aerie": faerie. (additional references)

Words containing "aerie": faeries. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Aerie" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aaie, aare, Aderdice, adria, Adrie, aeiry, Aerad, aere, aerea, aereo, aeria, aeriel, Aerien, aerier, aerine, aeris, Aetia, aevi, Aidrie, aiere, aiery, aiii, airee, airi, airia, airie, airiel, airile, Akerele, ameree, amerue, anergia, aoery, aprie, areae, arei, areic, areil, arele, Areoi, Arey, arfie, arie, Arieh, arye, Audrie, aurei, auria, aurie, aurii, aurine, Aveiro, averi, Averie, ayery, Earee, earie, eariy, eriee, erii, errie, Faurie, Ie-iie, ierei, ierie, Irie, Pagerie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Aerie"

Words rhyming with "aerie" (pronounced 'Ae"rie'): Chiefrie, Corrie, Cowries, Cowry, Eirie, Ferie, Lyrie, Norie, Perrie, Scorie, Serie, Tibrie. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Aerie

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-r"

-2 letters: air, are, ear, era, ere, ire, ree, rei, ria.

-3 letters: ae, ai, ar, er, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-r"
 

+1 letter: aeried, aerier, aeries, dearie, easier, faerie, feriae, pereia, rediae.

 

+2 letters: aeriest, aliener, aperies, arenite, ariette, atelier, beadier, beakier, beamier, deaired, dearies, deciare, earlier, emerita, emirate, faeries, filaree, freesia, headier, heavier, herniae, iterate, leadier, leafier, leakier, learier, leavier, mealier, meatier, peakier, peatier, perinea, readied, readier, readies, realise, realize, reginae, reimage, reraise, retinae, seamier, seriate, seriema, tearier, trainee, vealier, wearied, wearier, wearies.

 

+3 letters: achiever, acierate, aerified, aerifies, aerolite, aetheric, afebrile, aggrieve, agreeing, aigrette, airspeed, algerine, alieners, amberies, anergies, ankerite, anserine, antimere, aperient, arenites, ariettes, arsenide, arsenite, arteries, ateliers, aversive, bakeries, balefire, batterie, beachier, bearlike, bediaper, bewailer, bidarkee, blearier, casimere, causerie, celeriac, centiare, chivaree, creakier, creamier, creasier, creatine, creative, daikered, deadlier, deciares, derailed, derivate, detailer, detainer, diameter, diapered, diemaker, disagree, dreamier, drearier, drearies, earliest, earpiece, earthier, eateries, elaterid, elaterin, emeritae, emeritas, emigrate, emirates, entailer, eradiate, ergative, espalier, examiner, fakeries, featlier, ferriage, feterita, figeater, filagree, filarees, fireable, firebase, flanerie, freakier, freesias, gaselier, gesneria, gleamier, graecize, gratinee, greasier, harelike, heartier, hearties, heathier, hebraize, heritage, herniate, hetaeric, hireable, icemaker, increase, increate, inertiae, interage, iterance, iterated, iterates, japeries, jeremiad, laetrile, laterite, laterize, leachier, leariest, levirate, liberate, literate, materiel, measlier, medicare, naperies, narceine, nearlier, nearside, parietes, peachier, pearlier, pearlite, pedalier, perigeal, perigean, perineal, pharisee, praecipe, queasier, queazier, racemize, rapiered, rarefied, rarefier, rarefies, rareripe, razeeing, reactive, readiest, realised, realiser, realises, realized, realizer, realizes, realties, realtime, rearmice, rebaited, recamier, redialed, regained, regainer, reimaged, reimages, reinvade, relative, reliable, reliance, remailed, remained, remedial, renailed, repaired, repairer, reraised, reraises, resailed, resinate, retailed, retailer, retained, retainer, reviewal, rideable, seriated, seriates, seriemas, shikaree, shivaree, sidereal, sleazier, smearier, sneakier, steadier, steamier, stearine, sweatier, teariest, trainees, treaties, treatise, treenail, tweakier, uneasier, velarize, verbiage, wakerife, wasterie, waterier, weaklier, weariest, wiseacre, yearlies, yeastier.

 

+4 letters: abhenries, accretive, achievers, acierated, acierates, advertise, advertize, aerolites, afterlife, aftertime, agentries, aggrieved, aggrieves, aigrettes, airheaded, airspeeds, algerines, aliterate, allergies, altimeter, ancienter, ankerites, anorexies, anserines, antimeres, aperients, apheresis, appetiser, appetizer, appraisee, archeries, ardencies, arecoline, argentine, argentite, arsenides, arsenites, arteriole, assertive, aubergine, bacterize, balefires, baseliner, batteries, beaneries, beastlier, beavering, bediapers, beggaries, bereaving, bewailers, bewearied, bewearies, bidarkees, bleariest, brasserie, brassiere, braveries, breadline, breathier, brecciate, briefcase, cafeteria, calipered, canneries, careening, careering, careerism, careerist, caregiver, caressive, cartelise, cartelize, cashiered, casimeres, cassimere, catteries, causeries, cauteries, cauterize, ceasefire, celeriacs, centiares, cercariae, certainer, chelicera, chevalier, chickaree, chivareed, chivarees, cigarette, cisternae, cleanlier, creakiest, creamiest, creasiest, creatines, crepitate, daredevil, dauberies, deaneries, decaliter, declaimer, dekaliter, denigrate, deraigned, derivable, derivates, desirable, despaired, despairer, detailers, detainers, detrained, diablerie, diaereses, diaeresis, diaeretic, diameters, diemakers, dietaries, disagreed, disagrees, dramedies, draperies, dreamiest, dreamlike, dreamtime, dreariest, driveable, earliness, earpieces, earthiest, earthlier, earthlike, earthrise, earwigged, echeveria, elaterids, elaterins, elaterite, elutriate, embracive, emigrated, emigrates, endearing, engrailed, engrained, entailers, entertain, entrained, entrainer, eparchies, epicurean, epidermal, epimerase, epineuria, equaliser, equalizer, eradiated, eradiates, eradicate, errancies, esoterica, espaliers, estuaries, estuarine, eutherian, evaporite, examiners, exarchies, exclaimer, excoriate, explainer, extirpate, extradite, extricate, eyestrain, farseeing, feodaries, ferriages, feteritas, feudaries, fieldfare, figeaters, filagreed, filagrees, firebases, firebreak, firedrake, fireplace, firewater, flaneries, freakiest, fricassee, friedcake, gaberdine, galleried, galleries, garnishee, gaseliers, gaucherie, gauderies, germanize, germinate, gesneriad, graecized, graecizes, grapelike, graperies, grapevine, gratineed, gratinees, graveside, greasiest, greenmail, gregarine, grenadier, grenadine, grievance, hairpiece, headliner, healthier, heartiest, hebraized, hebraizes, heretical, heritable, heritages, hermitage, herniated, herniates, hesitater, hibernate, hyperemia, iceboater, icemakers, idealizer, imageries, impearled, impetrate, imprecate, inbreathe, increased, increaser, increases, inearthed, inebriate, inferable, innervate, integrate, interface, interlace, intermale, intervale, intreated, invertase, irateness, irredenta, isomerase, iterances, iterative, itinerate, jacquerie, jaggeries, jeremiads, knaveries, laetriles, larcenies, laterites, laterized, laterizes, lavaliere, laveering, legalizer, leporidae, levirates, liberated, liberates, lifesaver, limewater, linearise, linearize, literates, madrilene, marbleise, marbleize, masteries, materiels, medicares, meliorate, menagerie, metameric, minelayer, miscreate, miserable, misleader, misleared, misrelate, narceines, nearliest, nearsides, nectaries, nectarine, operative, orangerie, orientate, osmeteria, papeterie, passerine, patienter, pauperize, pearliest, pearlites, pearlized, peccaries, pedaliers, pedlaries, peperomia, percaline, perennial, pericopae, perihelia, periostea, peritonea, pertained, pervasive, pessaries, pharisees, pilferage, pistareen, praecipes, preachier, predicate, prelacies, prevailed, previable, privateer, puerperia, racemized, racemizes, racketier, rarefiers, rareripes, reacquire, readiness, reaffixed, reaffixes, realigned, realisers, realities, realizers, reanimate, reapplied, reapplies, reavailed, rebaptize, recamiers, recarried, recarries, reclaimed, recoinage, redbaited, redialled, reearning, reexamine, refinance, refrained, regainers, regearing, rehearing, reheating, reimagine, reinflate, reinstate, reinvaded, reinvades, reiterate, relatives, releasing, reliables, reliances, reliquiae, remainder, remarried, remarries, remediate, repainted, repairers, repairmen, repealing, repeating, replicase, replicate, reprieval, repudiate, reradiate, rereading, resealing, reseating, resinated, resinates, retailers, retainers, retaliate, reteaming, retearing, retinulae, retrained, retrieval, revealing, reviewals, revisable, revivable, reweaving, ricercare, sacrilege, sealeries, sectaries, serialise, serialize, seriately, sestertia, shapelier, shikarees, shivareed, shivarees, slaveries, smeariest, smiercase, sparteine, specialer, squeakier, statelier, steadiers, stearines, stingaree, streakier, streamier, tailender, tangerine, tanneries, taximeter, terminate, ternaries, therapies, threadier, tidewater, timesaver, traceried, traceries, tragedies, trailered, treatises, treenails, treillage, unreadier, unwearied, variegate, varieties, velarized, velarizes, venireman, veratrine, verbalize, verbiages, veritable, veritates, vernalize, versatile, viceregal, vinegared, vizierate, waggeries, wasteries, wateriest, waterline, waterside, wealthier, weariless, weariness, wearisome, winemaker, wiseacres, zedoaries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Aerie


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 65 72 69 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    .    .-.    ..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#101 &#114 &#105 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0065 0072 0069 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3571847571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Translations: Ancient
10. Derivations
11. Rhymes
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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