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Aery

Definitions: Aery

Aery

Adjective

1. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms".

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 "aery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)



Synonyms: Aery

Synonyms: aerial (adj), aeriform (adj), airy (adj), ethereal (adj), aerie (n), eyrie (n), eyry (n). (additional references)

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Name Usage Frequency: Aery

The following table summarizes the usage of "aery" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
AeryLast name13066,147
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Aery

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

aery

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Aery

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

Albanian

  

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

   

Bulgarian 

  

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

   

Korean 

  

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

   

Pig Latin

  

aeryay

   

Portuguese

  

aéreo (aerial, airy, etherial, irresponsive, overground, overhead, vague), etéreo (aerial, airy, ethereal, etherial, overground). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

aerian (aerial, aeriform, airy, breezy, ethereal, featherlike, gaseous, gauzy, hazy, skyey, thin, unsubstantial), vaporos (airy, ethereal, fluffy, gaseous, hazy, steamy, vaporous, vapoury, woolly), imaterial (aeriform, ghostly, immaterial, incorporeal, insubstantial, spiritual, unsubstantial). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

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

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kuća visoko u brdima, gnezdo orla. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

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

   

Swedish

  

rovfågels näste (aerie, eyrie), rovfågels kull (aerie), örnbo (aerie, eyrie). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

неземний (ambrosial, celestial, heavenly, sky-born, superlunary, supermundane, unearthly, unworldly), ефірний (aerial, airy, ethereal, etheric), повітряний (aerial, air, air raid, airy, overhead). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Aery

Derivations

Words ending with "aery": faery. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: Aery

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: eyra, yare, year.

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

-1 letter: are, aye, ear, era, ray, rya, rye, yar, yea.

-2 letters: ae, ar, ay, er, re, ya, ye.

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

+1 letter: apery, barye, deary, deray, early, eyras, faery, gayer, hayer, layer, leary, payer, rayed, ready, relay, repay, resay, sayer, teary, weary, yager, yarer, yearn, years, yerba.

 

+2 letters: aerify, aerily, ambery, anergy, argyle, artery, aweary, azerty, bakery, barely, barley, baryes, baryte, betray, bewray, bleary, brayed, brayer, bready, carney, creaky, creamy, creasy, darkey, dearly, defray, denary, derays, drapey, drayed, dreamy, dreary, earthy, eatery, elytra, estray, eyebar, fakery, flayer, frayed, freaky, garvey, grapey, grayed, grayer, greasy, gyrase, gyrate, hayers, hearty, hydrae, japery, jarvey, lawyer, layers, lyrate, napery, nearby, nearly, papery, parley, payers, pearly, player, prayed, prayer, prepay, rallye, rarefy, rarely, really, realty, redbay, relays, repays, replay, resays, sawyer, sayers, scarey, senary, slayer, smeary, stayer, swayer, treaty, wafery, watery, wavery, yabber, yagers, yakker, yammer, yapper, yarded, yarely, yarest, yarned, yarner, yatter, yauper, yawner, yawper, yearly, yearns, yerbas.

 

+3 letters: abhenry, agentry, alertly, allayer, allergy, already, angerly, annoyer, anorexy, anymore, apteryx, apyrase, archery, ardency, areally, areaway, argyles, arrayed, arrayer, assayer, barleys, barytes, battery, beanery, beeyard, beggary, betrays, beweary, bewrays, bilayer, blarney, bravely, bravery, brayers, breathy, caloyer, cannery, carneys, cattery, cautery, charley, clayier, clearly, daresay, darkeys, dasyure, daubery, daymare, deanery, decayer, defrays, delayer, dietary, dramedy, drapery, drayage, draymen, dryable, dryades, eagerly, earthly, eparchy, errancy, essayer, estrays, estuary, exarchy, eyebars, eyewear, feodary, feudary, flayers, forayed, forayer, forebay, freeway, gallery, gargety, garveys, gaudery, grapery, gravely, grayest, greatly, greylag, gyrases, gyrated, gyrates, hayride, haywire, hearsay, hydrase, hydrate, hydriae, hyraces, hyraxes, imagery, inlayer, irately, jaggery, jarveys, jaspery, kayaker, kerygma, keycard, knavery, lamprey, larceny, largely, lathery, lawyers, layered, layover, loyaler, lyrated, mastery, mattery, midyear, nectary, orangey, overlay, overpay, palfrey, parleys, parsley, partyer, peartly, peccary, pedlary, pessary, peytral, players, plenary, prayers, preachy, prelacy, prepays, pteryla, pyrexia, quavery, raceway, rackety, raggedy, rallyes, ravelly, rayless, raylike, readily, reality, reapply, recarry, redbays, regally, relayed, remarry, replays, respray, retiary, reynard, ropeway, rosebay, sawyers, screaky, sealery, sectary, slavery, slayers, sparely, sprayed, sprayer, stayers, strayed, strayer, streaky, streamy, swayers, synurae, tannery, tearily, ternary, therapy, thready, tracery, tragedy, trawley, treacly, typebar, unready, unweary, variety, virelay, voyager, waggery, wastery, wearily, wireway, wreathy, yabbers, yachter, yakkers, yammers, yappers, yardage, yardmen, yarners, yatters, yaupers, yawners, yawpers, yearend, yearned, yearner, zedoary.

 

+4 letters: abhenrys, acerbity, acrylate, actressy, adultery, aerially, aerodyne, aerology, aeronomy, affrayed, affrayer, alderfly, aleatory, allayers, allegory, analyser, analyzer, ancestry, aneurysm, annoyers, anywhere, apyrases, apyretic, ardently, areaways, areology, aroynted, arrayers, asperity, assayers, attorney, aversely, ayurveda, badgerly, bankerly, barberry, barrenly, barretry, barytone, basketry, bayadeer, bayadere, bayberry, bearably, beeyards, beggarly, bestiary, betrayal, betrayed, betrayer, bewrayed, bewrayer, bilayers, biyearly, bladdery, blarneys, blearily, boneyard, brazenly, breviary, butyrate, cajolery, caloyers, calypter, carboyed, category, catenary, centaury, chancery, charleys, chattery, cinerary, clattery, claymore, clayware, coarsely, cometary, copyread, cravenly, crayoned, creakily, creamery, creamily, cyclecar, cymbaler, cytaster, dairymen, dapperly, dasyures, daybreak, daydream, daymares, deaconry, decayers, decenary, deeryard, defrayal, defrayed, defrayer, delayers, diablery, dialyser, dialyzer, drayages, dreamily, drearily, driveway, earthily, easterly, emissary, empyreal, empyrean, enactory, endarchy, entreaty, entryway, errantly, errantry, erythema, essayers, estrayed, euphrasy, eurybath, everyday, everyman, everyway, eyewater, farriery, fatherly, feathery, federacy, feracity, ferryman, fireclay, flackery, flattery, flypaper, forayers, forebays, forelady, foreplay, forestay, foreyard, freakily, freeways, funerary, gadgetry, garganey, gargoyle, glaziery, gramarye, gramercy, gravelly, grayness, greasily, greenway, greylags, hagberry, hatchery, haymaker, hayrides, haywires, hearsays, heartily, heathery, heraldry, hereaway, hexarchy, hoarsely, hoorayed, hurrayed, hydrases, hydrated, hydrates, hysteria, inlayers, interlay, jagghery, jeopardy, jerrycan, kaleyard, kayakers, kerygmas, keyboard, keycards, knackery, lamasery, lampreys, larynges, larynxes, latterly, lawyered, lawyerly, layerage, layering, layovers, leathery, lethargy, linearly, literacy, literary, lyrately, malarkey, mannerly, markedly, martyred, maryjane, masterly, maturely, maumetry, mayoress, meagerly, meagrely, midyears, mislayer, monetary, nabobery, naysayer, neurally, numeracy, numerary, operably, orangery, ornately, outweary, overeasy, overlays, overmany, overpays, overplay, overstay, overwary, palfreys, paperboy, papyrine, paralyse, paralyze, parlayed, parleyed, parleyer, parsleys, partyers, passerby, paygrade, pedantry, peytrals, plastery, playgoer, playwear, psaltery, pterygia, pterylae, pyoderma, pyorrhea, pyranose, pyrexial, pyrexias, pyruvate, quackery, raceways, raggedly, raillery, ramosely, rateably, readably, readerly, readying, rectally, regality, regnancy, relaying, reliably, repacify, repandly, repaying, replayed, resaying, resprays, retrally, reynards, rockabye, ropeways, rosebays, rosemary, routeway, ryegrass, sacredly, saddlery, savagery, scarcely, seminary, serially, slabbery, sparsely, spermary, sprayers, squarely, staggery, sternway, strategy, strayers, styraxes, superlay, swannery, sybarite, sycamore, synergia, tapestry, taxpayer, teaberry, tearaway, tenantry, terabyte, teriyaki, tertiary, textuary, thearchy, trachyte, travesty, trawleys, treasury, tutelary, typebars, tyramine, underlay, underpay, underway, unreally, urbanely, valkyrie, variedly, varletry, veracity, verbally, verdancy, vernally, vespiary, vestiary, vicenary, vinegary, vineyard, virelays, voyagers, voyageur, walkyrie, wardenry, waterily, waterway, waxberry, wayfarer, waylayer, weaponry, wearying, wireways, yabbered, yachters, yahrzeit, yammered, yammerer, yardages, yarmelke, yarmulke, yattered, yawmeter, yearbook, yearends, yearlies, yearling, yearlong, yearners, yearning, yeasayer, yeastier, yeomanry, ytterbia, zealotry.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Aery


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

41 65 72 79

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 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#101 &#114 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0065 0072 0079

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

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

35718491

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Names: Frequency
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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