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Definition of aerial noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

aerial

noun
 
/ˈeəriəl/
 
/ˈeriəl/
(especially British English)
(also antenna especially in North American English)
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  1. a piece of equipment made of wire or long straight pieces of metal for receiving or sending radio and television signals
    • a forest of television aerials on the roofs
    Topics Houses and homesc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • radio
    • television
    • TV
    • …
    aerial + verb
    • transmit something
    • pick something up
    • receive something
    • …
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    Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘thin as air, imaginary’): via Latin aerius from Greek aerios (from aēr ‘air’) + -al.
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