eyrie
pronunciation
How to pronounce eyrie in British English:
UK [ˈiəri]
How to pronounce eyrie in American English:
US [ˈɛri, ˈɪri]
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- Noun:
- the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
- any habitation at a high altitude
Word Origin
- eyrie
- eyrie: [16] Latin ager (source of English agriculture and related to English acre) meant ‘field’, or more broadly ‘piece of land’. In postclassical times this extended via ‘native land’ to ‘lair of a wild animal, particularly a bird of prey’, the meaning of its Old French descendant aire. The Old French form was taken back into medieval Latin as aeria, the immediate source of the English word.=> acre, agriculture
- eyrie
- see aerie.
Example
- 1. So it may have been especially satisfying for mr medvedev to force mr sechin out of his eyrie at rosneft .