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English

Alternative forms

• aire, ayre, eyr (obsolete)
• ayr (especially when referring to the form of music)

Etymology

From Middle English air, eir (“gas, atmosphere”), from Anglo-Norman aeir, eyer, Old French aire, eir, from Latin ??r, from Ancient Greek ??? (a?r, “wind, atmosphere”). Displaced native Middle English luft, lift (“air”) (from Old English lyft (“air, atmosphere”)), Middle English loft (“air, upper region”) (from Old Norse lopt (“air, sky, loft”)). More at lift, loft.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???/, /???/
• (General American) enPR: âr, IPA^(key): /????/, /???/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: Ayr, ere, eyre, heir, are (unit of measurement); err (one pronunciation); e'er (US)

Noun

air (countable and uncountable, plural airs)

1. (uncountable, meteorology) The substance constituting earth's atmosphere, particularly:
   1. (historical, philosophy, alchemy) understood as one of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
   2. (historical, medicine) understood as a particular local substance with supposed effects on human health.
      • 1991 May 12, "Kidnapped!" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:

        Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
        B. Wooster: Hm? What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
        Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir.

   3. (physics) understood as a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases.
2. (usually with the) The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical) formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but (meteorology) now considered to be surrounded by the near vacuum of outer space.

3. A breeze; a gentle wind.
4. A feeling or sense.
   • November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk

     Smalling’s quick one-two of yellow cards towards the end of the first half had left an air of inevitability about what would follow and, if anything, it was probably a surprise that City restricted themselves to Sergio Agüero’s goal bearing in mind another of United’s defenders, Marcos Rojo, was taken off on a stretcher early in the second half with a dislocated shoulder.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined. She held the flower to her face with a long-drawn inhalation, then went up the steps, crossed the piazza, opened the door without knocking, and entered the house with the air of one thoroughly at home.

5. A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
   • 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, Volume I, Chapter 4:

     "He is very plain, undoubtedly—remarkably plain:—but that is nothing compared with his entire want of gentility. I had no right to expect much, and I did not expect much; but I had no idea that he could be so very clownish, so totally without air. I had imagined him, I confess, a degree or two nearer gentility."

6. (usually in the plural) Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
7. (music) A song, especially a solo; an aria.
   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 18:

     "If I," said Mr. Collins, "were so fortunate as to be able to sing, I should have great pleasure, I am sure, in obliging the company with an air; for I consider music as a very innocent diversion, and perfectly compatible with the profession of a clergyman […] "

8. (informal) Nothing; absence of anything.
9. (countable, uncountable) An air conditioner or the processed air it produces.

10. (obsolete, chemistry) Any specific gas.
11. (snowboarding, skateboarding, motor sports) A jump in which one becomes airborne.
12. A television or radio signal.
13. (uncountable) Publicity.

Synonyms

• atmosphere
• aura
• lift
• nimbus
• gas

Derived terms

Pages starting with “air”.

Related terms

• aerate
• aero-
• aria

Translations

See air/translations § Noun.

Verb

air (third-person singular simple present airs, present participle airing, simple past and past participle aired)

1. To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it.
2. To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate.

   It's getting quite stuffy in this room: let's open the windows and air it.

3. To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic.
   • 1917, National Geographic, v.31, March 1917:

     Thus, in spite of all opposition, the rural and urban assemblies retained the germ of local government, and in spite of the dual control, as the result of which much of their influence was nullified, they did have a certain value in airing abuses and suggesting improvements.

4. (transitive) To broadcast (a television show etc.).
5. (intransitive) To be broadcast.

   This game show first aired in the 1990s and is still going today.

6. (Britain, MLE, slang) To ignore (a person).

   Why is this girl airing me?

Derived terms

• air out
• aired
• aired-out

Translations

Anagrams

• ARI, Ari, IAR, IRA, Ira, RIA, Rai, rai, raï, ria

Cornish

Alternative forms

• ayr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [e??]

Noun

air m

1. air

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French air, from Middle French air, from Old French air, from Latin ??r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r/
• Hyphenation: aie
• Rhymes: -??r

Noun

air m (plural airs, diminutive airtje n)

1. air, pretension or pretentious attitude
2. tune, melody

Descendants

• Afrikaans: air

French

Etymology

From Old French air, aire, from Latin ??r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/
• Homophones: aire, airent, aires, airs, ère, ères, erre, errent, erres, ers, haire, haires, hère, hères

Noun

air m (plural airs)

1. air (gases of the atmosphere)
2. tune, aria
3. appearance
4. air (pretension)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “air” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ira
• rai

Gothic

Romanization

air

1. Romanization of ????????????

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay air, from Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.??r/

Noun

air (first-person possessive airku, second-person possessive airmu, third-person possessive airnya)

1. water
   1. clear liquid H?O
   2. mineral water
   3. one of the four elements in alchemy
   4. one of the five basic elements in some other theories
2. (colloquial) a cockfight round which started by spraying water to the cock.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “air” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish airid (“ploughs, tills”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??/

Verb

air (present analytic aireann, future analytic airfidh, verbal noun ar, past participle airthe)

1. (literary, transitive, intransitive) plough

Conjugation

Noun

air m

1. genitive singular of ar

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (stressed) /???/, (unstressed) /???/

Pronoun

air (emphatic airsean)

1. third-person singular masculine of ar (on him, on it m)

Mutation

References

• "air" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “3 airid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Kedah Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ä.jäq/

Noun

air

1. water.

   Air manis

   Sweet water

Kein

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?/

Noun

air

1. woman

Further reading

• Bemal Organized Phonology Data

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *airo.

Noun

air

1. oar

Malay

Alternative forms

• ?^????

Etymology

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684AD. From Proto-Malayic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Chamic *air, from Proto-Malayo-Sumbawan *wair, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wahi?.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /ae(r)/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /a?(r)/
• Rhymes: -ae(r), -e(r)

Noun

air (Jawi spelling ?????, informal 1st possessive airku, impolite 2nd possessive airmu, 3rd possessive airnya)

1. water (liquid H₂O)
   • 2012, Faridah Abdul Rashid, Research on the Early Malay Doctors : 1900-1957 : Malaya and Singapore [2]

     loji rawatan air

     water treatment plant

Derived terms

• air bah / ?^??? ???
• air mata / ?^??? ????

Descendants

• Indonesian: air

References

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Norman

Etymology

From Latin ??r.

Noun

air m (plural airs)

1. air (mixture of gases that make up the earth's atmosphere)

Related terms

• atmosphère, atmosphéthe

Old French

Alternative forms

• aer, aïr, ar, eir, aeir, eyer, aire

Etymology

From Latin ??r.

Noun

air m (oblique plural airs, nominative singular airs, nominative plural air)

1. air (mixture of gases that make up the earth's atmosphere)

Descendants

• French: air
• Norman: air
• ? Middle English: air, eir
  • English: air
  • Scots: air

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• ar

Etymology

From the same root as ar (“for”, preposition).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar?/

Conjunction

air

1. for (because, since)
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55^d11

   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 159^a2

   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 159^a3

Pohnpeian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jir/

Verb

air

1. (transitive) to strip off, as when stripping insulation off a wire
2. (transitive) to wipe off a ropelike object by drawing it through one's hand or fingers

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish for. Cognates include Irish ar and Manx er.

Preposition

air (+ dative)

1. on, upon

2. of, concerning

3. for, on account of

4. by

Inflection

Usage notes

• The word air and its derivates are used in many idioms:

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish for. Cognates include Irish air and Manx er.

Pronoun

air

1. third-person singular masculine of air: on him, on it

Inflection

References

• “air” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Complied by Malcolm MacLennan)

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *airo.

Noun

air

1. oar

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ai?r/

Noun

air

1. Soft mutation of gair.

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?l.o?z/
• (US, dialectal) IPA^(key): /?b?l.?s/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?l.??z/
• Rhymes: -?l??z

Etymology 1

From Middle English belwes, plural of belu, belwe, a northern form of beli, from Old English belg, cf. bæl?, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz. Compare German Balg. See also belly.

Noun

bellows (plural bellows)

1. A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. At its most simple terms a bellows is a container which is deformable in such a way as to alter its volume which has an outlet or outlets where one wishes to blow air.
2. Any flexible container or enclosure, as one used to cover a moving joint.
3. (informal or archaic) The lungs.
4. (photography) Flexible, light-tight enclosures connecting the lensboard and the camera back.
5. (figuratively) That which fans the fire of hatred, jealousy, etc.

Usage notes

• "Bellows" is used with both singular and plural verbs. One can even find "A bellows is/was".

Related terms

• bellowser
• belly
• blow

Translations

Verb

bellows (third-person singular simple present bellowses, present participle bellowsing, simple past and past participle bellowsed)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To operate a bellows; to direct air at (something) using a bellows.
   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter ,^[1]

     […] I was recommended to the place as a man who could give another man as good as he brought, and I took it. It’s easier than bellowsing and hammering.

   • 1915, John G. Neihardt, The Song of Hugh Glass, New York: Macmillan, Part 2, p. 34,^[2]

     So bellowsed, all the kindled soul of Hugh

     Became a still white hell of brooding ire,

     And through his veins regenerating fire

     Ran, driving out the lethargy of pain.

   • 1920, Arthur Guiterman, “Thunder-Storm” in Ballads of Old New York, New York: Harper & Bros., p. 49,^[3]

     The smiths of the heavens are mending the weather;

     Their hammers are beating the fragments together.

     The cumulus mountains with nebulous gorges

     Are dazzled with flame of the wind-bellowsed forges;

   • 1966, Anthony Burgess, Tremor of Intent: An Eschatological Spy Novel, New York: Norton, Part 3, Chapter 6, p. 173,^[4]

     He almost let the cigar go out. ‘Good God, no. We’re both exiles, aren’t we?’ He bellowsed the end red again and continued, delicate as a musician, his scoring.

   • 1999, Ferdinand Mount, Jem (and Sam), New York: Carroll & Graf, Chapter 10, p. 397,^[5]

     This is a capricious devil, the furnace, though I say it myself, and it wants regular bellowsing.

2. (intransitive, figuratively) To expand and contract like a bellows.
   • 1904, A. R. Sennett, Across the Great Saint Bernard: The Modes of Nature and the Manners of Man, London: Bemrose & Sons, Chapter 6, p. 389,^[6]

     […] [the dogs] sprang up, and, with a grand spraying of the crisp snow as they fleetly clambered up the steep side, they were with us in an incredibly short time, with pink tongues protruding, sides bellowsing, and sterns wagging.

   • 1933, John Steinbeck, The Red Pony, New York: Viking, 1945, Chapter 1, p. 48,^[7]

     The pony still lay on his side and the wound in his throat bellowsed in and out.

   • 1978, Stephen King, The Stand, New York: Random House, 2012, Chapter 25, p. 196,^[8]

     A sick-looking dog sat in the middle of the road, head down, sides bellowsing, white foam dripping from its muzzle to the heat-shimmering pavement.

   • 1998, Loren D. Estleman, Jitterbug, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, Chapter Six, p. 53,^[9]

     The old man laughed without making a sound. His chest bellowsed and he opened his mouth to display a horseshoe of gold molars.

3. (transitive) To fold up like a bellows; to accordion.
   • 1916, Roger Pocock, Horses, London: John Murray, 2nd edition, 1917, Chapter 6, pp. 170-171,^[10]

     Without being tight […] the boot leg should fit close. The ankle should be supple as a stocking, and “bellowsed” to make sure of suppleness.

   • 1986, Will D. Campbell, Forty Acres and a Goat, Atlanta: Peachtree, Chapter 9, p. 185,^[11]

     […] the chairman of the gathered scholars […] [shushed] the black waiters preparing to feed us a hefty lunch behind the bellowsed dividing wall with the impatient yell, “You’re disturbing our meeting,” while we discussed their plight on our side of the wall.

   • 1994, Timothy West, I’m Here I Think, Where Are You? Letters from a touring actor, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995, p. 139,^[12]

     [The bus] rolled swiftly down the hill and bellowsed five parked cars […]

Etymology 2

See bellow

Noun

bellows

1. plural of bellow

Verb

bellows

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bellow

Anagrams

• Boswell