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WALKING ON AIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does walking on air mean? 

WALKING ON AIR (noun)
  The noun WALKING ON AIR has 1 sense:

1. a state of extreme happinessplay

  Familiarity information: WALKING ON AIR used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WALKING ON AIR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of extreme happiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

bliss; blissfulness; cloud nine; seventh heaven; walking on air

Hypernyms ("walking on air" is a kind of...):

elation (an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "walking on air"):

ecstasy; rapture (a state of elated bliss)

Derivation:

walk on air (feel extreme happiness or elation)


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