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[ air-ee, eer-ee ] / ˈɛər i, ˈɪər i /
Words nearby eyrieeye worm, eyot, eyra, eyre, Eyre Peninsula, eyrie, eyrir, Eysenck, Eysk, EZ, Ezechias Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for eyrieStriving to be evocatively mysterious, Eyrie is in the end merely mystifying. Tim Winton's Beautiful, Baffling 'Eyrie'|Wendy Smith|August 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST Of course Lysa summoned Sansa to the Eyrie immediately thereafter. Game of Thrones’ Ep. 7 ‘Mockingbird’ Recap: Conscious Coupling (and Uncoupling)|Andrew Romano|May 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST And there springs Radicofani, the eagle's eyrie of a brigand brood. New Italian sketches|John Addington Symonds After that he lay for some time like a wounded eagle in his eyrie, his mind as active as ever. Abroad at Home|Julian Street
Thus it is rarely that even an experienced falconer can lay hands on a wild hawk after it has once left the eyrie. The Art and Practice of Hawking|Edward B. Michell Yielding to this admonition, which to-day was by no means less plain than usual, I quitted my eyrie and rode down to the camp. Across Patagonia|Lady Florence Dixie I looked down from our eyrie, scarcely more than half a mile away, with some misgivings. Hurricane Island|H. B. Marriott Watson
British Dictionary definitions for eyrie/ (ˈɪərɪ, ˈɛərɪ, ˈaɪərɪ) /
nounthe nest of an eagle or other bird of prey, built in a high inaccessible place the brood of a bird of prey, esp an eagle any high isolated position or place Word Origin for eyrieC16: from Medieval Latin airea, from Latin ārea open field, hence nest Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |