AETHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Aether mean? 

• AETHER (noun)
  The noun AETHER has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: AETHER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AETHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Aether" is a kind of...):

Greek deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Greeks)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

aether; ether

Hypernyms ("aether" is a kind of...):

medium (an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication)