WALK ON AIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does walk on air mean? 

• WALK ON AIR (verb)
  The verb WALK ON AIR has 1 sense:

1. feel extreme happiness or elation

  Familiarity information: WALK ON AIR used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WALK ON AIR (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feel extreme happiness or elation

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

be on cloud nine; exult; jump for joy; walk on air

Hypernyms (to "walk on air" is one way to...):

joy; rejoice (feel happiness or joy)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "walk on air"):

rejoice; triumph; wallow (be ecstatic with joy)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue walk on air

Derivation:

walking on air (a state of extreme happiness)