ether
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- noun
- /ˈiːθər/
- Archaic
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éter
- I dreamt I was as light as the ether, a floatin' spirit, visitin' things to come.
It's it's a Sanskrit word for ether sky or atmosphere.
- It's it's a Sanskrit word for ether sky or atmosphere.
- But I was in the ether and he was back on Earth.
- To loosen a little the air from the ether.
- You don't want things just to seem to drift off into the ether.
- And we know the elements from the Hindi tradition like air, water, fire, ether and earth, right?
- And we had a long conversation about it was lost into the ether.
- It's like watching a, a, a gymnast with a routine that they're just able to reach out into the ether and grab something and pull it in.
- Anytime you say something, it gets taken out of your mind and like it's vented to the ether.
- So have a great month and I will see you somewhere in the ether.
- I just, you know, I can play it safe when I'm back in the ether.
Examples
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This, everyone knew, was filled with the Ether of Life and molten gold.
Fiction book (1993) -
And we know the elements from the Hindi tradition like air, water, fire, ether and earth, right?
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But I was in the ether and he was back on Earth.
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Just call into the ether and I will hear you.
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Children can sense that feeling, the unsettled ether in a room where someone has just come in.
Fiction book (1997) -
So I didn't feel like I was falling through the ether and was going to just end up crashed on the ground.
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Because of the transiting of the planets, strange energies are entering the ether.
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Time suddenly became irrelevant; fractured by spirits making their presence known, then dispersing into the ether.
Blog text (3) -
The moon chose that moment to show its face above the trees, and out on the pool, a white wisp of ether curled and molded itself to a certain shape, and a name was whispered across the sparkling waters.
Fiction book (1992) -
We can't see it or feel it, but everywhere that light travels, the ether is there.
Synonyms
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Pure bright upper air that the gods breathe in Greek myth
A fifth element thought to make the stars and sky
A subtle substance like space believed to make up the universe
Idioms
Compounds
- Archaic
A clear, very flammable liquid once used to make people sleep during surgery and to dissolve chemicals
- Specialized
A colorless, very flammable liquid once used to make patients unconscious by breathing it
- Archaic
A clear liquid that catches fire easily and was used to make people sleep during surgery and to dissolve substances
- Archaic
A clear, very flammable liquid once breathed in to make people sleep for surgery
Surface Forms
Etymology
Ether comes from the Greek aether, which meant the 'upper air' or the pure stuff of the sky. Long ago people thought the stars and heavens were made of this special, light substance, and that idea is why ether was the name for the highest, celestial element and is related to the word ethereal meaning very light or otherworldly.