Its name comes from the greek verb aithein, meaning to ignite or to blaze. when ethereal, the adjectival kin of ether, debuted in english in the 1500s, it described regions beyond the earth or anything that seemed to originate from them. This word can also describe something delicate and light, like a singer’s ethereal voice Very light and delicate, especially in a way that does not seem to come from the real, physical…
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Definition of ethereal adjective in oxford advanced learner's dictionary
Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. The result is a wilderness of ethereal beauty, teeming with wildlife that regards human beings as curious oddities, and a haunting loneliness that is almost tangible. Virgil described the ethereal process as expanding itself through the universe, and giving life and motion to the inhabitants of earth, water, and air, by a participation of its own essence, each particle of which returned to its native source at the dissolution of the body which it animated. Meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the oxford english dictionary
Gone to his ethereal home Of or pertaining to the upper regions of space Chemistry pertaining to, containing, or resembling ethyl ether Airy, fragile, insubstantial, light, delicate, more.
It was an ethereal visitation by someone from another world.
Something ethereal is airy and insubstantial, like a ghostly figure at the top of the stairs
