ON AIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does on air mean? 

• ON AIR (adverb)
  The adverb ON AIR has 1 sense:

1. very happily

  Familiarity information: ON AIR used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ON AIR (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Very happily

Context example:

we were floating on air at the news

 Context examples 

It came—it was fine—and Catherine trod on air.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A WHO scientist and expert on air pollution, Marie Noel Brune Drisse, warns that many babies will have neurodevelopment problems, resulting in lower IQs.

(WAir Pollution a Health Risk for Children, Lisa Schlein/VOA)

It will be a fearful ordeal—be not deceived in that—but it will be only a short time, and you will then rejoice more than your pain was great; from this grim tomb you will emerge as though you tread on air.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I wanted to persuade Dora to come and see Traddles, but on my proposing it she ran off to her own room and locked herself in; so I went to Traddles without her, and walked away with him on air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Using a whole-room indirect calorimeter – which allows energy expenditure to be calculated based on air samples – researchers took baseline measurements of the participants’ energy expenditure in response to a day of fasting, followed by a six-week inpatient phase of 50 percent calorie reduction.

(Ease of weight loss influenced by individual biology, NIH)