Allan Stein
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Shakespeare himself may have coined this word, in Othello, and later he gave the name Ariel to the famous air-spirit character in The Tempest. An aerialist is an acrobat who performs high above the audience. In painting, aerial perspective is the way an artist creates the illusion that a mountain or city is far away (something that early painters only slowly learned how to do), usually by making it slightly misty and bluish gray—as if seen through miles of air. An aerial work platform, or "cherry picker", supports a worker at a high elevation on the end of a crane. And aerial itself can be used as a noun, meaning a TV antenna, a forward pass in football, or a high-flying stunt performed by a skateboarder or snowboarder.
Examples of aerial in a Sentence
Reuters, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
Tyrick Mitchell and Daniel Munoz are much better at providing the low delivery on the run, while Borna Sosa, trying the aerial route, kept finding the heads of Fredrikstad players in the first leg.
—Liam Tharme, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
Kansas City Star, 2 July 2025
Keegan obliged and then made the stage his personal dance floor, showing off his best dance moves and even doing a couple of front aerials, back handsprings and splits.
—Charna Flam, People.com, 27 June 2025
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Cite this Entry
“Aerial.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aerial. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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aerial
1 of 2 adjective
aerial
2 of 2 noun
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