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5-letter words (3 found)

ETHER,THERE,THREE,

4-letter words (8 found)

ETHE,HERE,HETE,RETE,TEER,TEHR,THEE,TREE,

3-letter words (9 found)

ERE,ETH,HER,HET,REE,REH,RET,TEE,THE,

2-letter words (7 found)

EE,EH,ER,ET,HE,RE,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 28 words from ether according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of ether

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Definitions and meaning of ether

ether

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈiː.θə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈi.θɚ/
  • Rhymes: -iːθə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English ēther (the caelum aetherum of ancient cosmology in which the planets orbit; a shining, fluid substance described as a form of air or fire; air), borrowed from Anglo-Norman ether and Middle French ether, ethere, aether, from Old French aether (highest and purest part of the atmosphere; medium supposedly filling the upper regions of space) (modern French éther), or directly from its etymon Latin aethēr (highest and purest part of the atmosphere; air; heavens, sky; light of day; ethereal matter surrounding a deity) (note also New Latin aethēr (chemical compound analogous to diethyl ether)), from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr, purer upper air of the atmosphere; heaven, sky; theoretical medium supposed to fill unoccupied space and transmit heat and light), from αἴθω (aíthō, to burn, ignite; to blaze, shine), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ- (to burn; fire).

The English word is cognate with Italian ether, ethera (both obsolete), etere, Middle Dutch ether (modern Dutch aether (obsolete), ether), German Äther, Ether, Portuguese éter, Spanish éter.

Noun

ether (countable and uncountable, plural ethers)

  1. (uncountable, literary or poetic) The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.
    1. (by extension) The medium breathed by human beings; the air.
    2. (by extension) The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.
  2. (uncountable, physics, historical) Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955).
  3. (uncountable, colloquial) The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace.
    • H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness
  4. (uncountable, colloquial) A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.
  5. (uncountable, organic chemistry) Diethyl ether (C4H10O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.
  6. (countable, organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
  7. (uncountable) Starting fluid.
Alternative forms
  • æther, aether (Britain, dated, obsolete in chemistry)
  • aethyr, ethyr (archaic)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
  • Korean: 에테르 (etereu)
  • Chinese: 以太 (yǐtài)
Translations
See also
  • firmament (also with multiple senses ranging from "sky" to "atmosphere" to "upper atmosphere" to "heaven")
  • welkin (also with multiple senses ranging from "sky" to "atmosphere" to "upper atmosphere" to "heaven")

Etymology 2

From “Ether” (2001), a song by the American hip hop recording artist Nas (born 1973). According to Nas, the song, a diss track aimed at fellow artist Jay-Z (born 1969), was thus named because he was once told that ghosts and spirits do not like the fumes from ether (noun, sense 5), and he viewed the song as affecting Jay-Z in a similar way. The song contains the lines “I fuck with your soul like ether” and “That ether, that shit that make your soul burn slow”.

Verb

ether (third-person singular simple present ethers, present participle ethering, simple past and past participle ethered)

  1. (transitive, slang) To viciously humiliate or insult.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:abash
Translations

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • (rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈɛðɚ/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /ˈɛðə/

Verb

ether (third-person singular simple present ethers, present participle ethering, simple past and past participle ethered)

  1. (UK dialectal) Alternative form of edder
    • 1886, Gertrude Elizabeth Blood Campbell, A Book of the Running Brook, and of Still Waters, page 122:
      In the edition of 1760 of "The Complete Angler" there is a curious quotation from Bowlker, who was a great authority on fish-ponds, in which he recommends:— "When you intend to stick a pool with carp or tench, make a close ethering hedge across the head of the pool about a yard distance of the dam, and about three foot above the water, which is the best refuge for them I know of, and the only method to preserve pool-fish; [] "

Etymology 4

Noun

ether (plural ether)

  1. (cryptocurrencies) Alternative letter-case form of Ether

References

Further reading

  • aether (classical element) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • aether (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • ether on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Ether (song) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Ehret, Reeth, rethe, theer, there, three

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ether, from Latin aethēr, from Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈeː.tər/
  • Hyphenation: ether
  • Rhymes: -eːtər
  • Homophone: eter

Noun

ether m (plural ethers)

  1. (broadcasting, uncountable) air, broadcasting
  2. (organic chemistry) ether (organic compound containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups)
  3. (historical) ether (fifth element of Aristotelian natural philosophy, supposed to be the building block of the heavens)
    Synonym: kwintessens
  4. (historical, physics) ether (luminiferous aether, medium in which electromagnetic waves were supposed to occur)

Derived terms

  • etherisch
  • etherpiraat
  • etherpiraterij

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: eter
  • Indonesian: ètêr
  • Japanese: エーテル (ēteru)

Anagrams

  • heter

Portuguese

Noun

ether m (plural etheres)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of éter.

Welsh

Alternative forms

  • aether

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aether.

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈɛθɛr/
  • (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈeːθɛr/, /ˈɛθɛr/
  • Rhymes: -ɛθɛr

Noun

ether f (usually uncountable, plural ethra or ethera)

  1. (uncountable, literary, poetic) ether (a mystical substance formerly thought to fill the upper atmosphere, firmament, the sky, the heavens)
    Synonyms: nwyfre, nyfel, nyfelwy, yr elfen dân
  2. (uncountable, physics, historical) luminiferous aether (a substance formerly thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without interacting with them itself)
    Synonym: nwyfre
  3. (uncountable, organic chemistry) ether, diethyl ether (C4H10O)
    Synonym: gwirfwy
    1. (countable) an ether (one of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups)

Synonyms

  • uchawyr

Mutation

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ether”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Source: wiktionary.org