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Definitions: Aerie |
AerieNoun1. 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: AerieSynonyms: aery (n), eyrie (n), eyry (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Aerie |
| English words defined with "aerie": Ayry ♦ Eirie. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Bald Eagle in aerie.Credit: Alaska Image Library. |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aerie | 59 |
aerie resort | 25 |
aerie guitar | 7 |
aerie builder | 6 |
eagle aerie | 6 |
aerie network | 5 |
aerie free guitar tablature | 3 |
aerie hotel | 3 |
aerie eagle school | 2 |
aerie romance | 2 |
aerie eagle job school | 2 |
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| 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 ninho de ave de rapina, ninhada de ave de rapina, muito alto (high-power, sky high, topless, towering). (various references) 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) гнездо хищной птицы, выводок хищной птицы (aery), выводок (aery, brood, clutch, hatch, litter, nest). (various references) orlovsko gnezdo, leglo (brood, covey, hatch, hotbed, roost, source), gnezdo ptice grabljivice. (various references) aguilera (aery, eyrie), nidada (aery, brood, nest, sitting). (various references) rovfågels näste (aery, eyrie), örnbo (aery, eyrie). (various references) yüksek kuş yuvası, tepedeki ev, kartal yuvası (eyrie, eyry). (various references) фортеця на недоступній скелі, гніздо хижака, виводок (brood, litter, nest), замок (lock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | area. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | ey. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aerie": aeried, aerier, aeries, aeriest. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "aerie": faerie. (additional references) | |
Words containing "aerie": faeries. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| Words rhyming with "aerie" (pronounced 'Ae"rie'): Chiefrie, Corrie, Cowries, Cowry, Eirie, Ferie, Lyrie, Norie, Perrie, Scorie, Serie, Tibrie. (additional references) |
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. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- . .-. .. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A e r i e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0065 0072 0069 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3571847571 |
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