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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'ethereal' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions ethereal adjective  Pertaining to the hypothetical upper, purer air, or to the higher regions beyond the earth or beyond the atmosphere; celestial; as, ethereal space; ethereal regions. 1667: w: John Milton, Milton, Paradise Lost, book VII : Go, heavenly guest, messenger. 1862: w:Henry David Thoreau, Thoreau, http://wikisource.org/wiki/Walking Walking. : I trust that we shall be more imaginative, that our thoughts will be clearer, fresher, and more , as our sky,... Consisting of ether; hence, exceedingly light or airy; tenuous; spiritlike; characterized by extreme delicacy, as form, manner, thought, etc. 1733: w:Alexander Pope, Pope, http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2428 An Essay on Man : Vast chain of being, which from God began, Natures , human, angel, man. Delicate, light and airy. Translations:  Etymology: from Latin aetherius, from Ancient Greek (polytonic, á)        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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