Aether meaning

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Aether (noun): personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and night or of Chaos and darkness.

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Aether has 2 meanings in this dictionary.

Aether as a noun

  1. personification of the sky or upper air breathed by the Olympians; son of Erebus and night or of Chaos and darkness

    Type of: Greek deity

  2. a medium that was once supposed to fill all space and to support the propagation of electromagnetic waves

    Synonyms: ether

    Type of: medium

Word lists: words starting with AE · words ending in ER · 6-letter words

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