AIRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aired mean? 

• AIRED (adjective)
  The adjective AIRED has 1 sense:

1. open to or abounding in fresh air

  Familiarity information: AIRED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AIRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Open to or abounding in fresh air

Synonyms:

aired; airy

Context example:

airy rooms

Similar:

ventilated (exposed to air)

 Context examples 

Aired! (She laughed, here, in the most melodious manner.) On a Sunday morning, when I don't practise, I must do something.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A room at an inn was always damp and dangerous; never properly aired, or fit to be inhabited.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

He accoutred me with other necessaries, all new, which I aired for twenty-four hours before I would use them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I don’t have the natal horoscope that is unique to you, but I can say that if you have already aired a matter that has been on your mind with your partner or soon will, you will likely be happier afterward because you both will have come to a new understanding.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She talks such nonsense about its being necessary for the day to be aired, before I come out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If I could be sure of the rooms being thoroughly aired—but is Mrs. Stokes to be trusted?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I forgot another circumstance (and perhaps I might have the reader’s pardon if it were wholly omitted), that while I held the odious vermin in my hands, it voided its filthy excrements of a yellow liquid substance all over my clothes; but by good fortune there was a small brook hard by, where I washed myself as clean as I could; although I durst not come into my master’s presence until I were sufficiently aired.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When I went out to the Commons, I charged Mrs. Crupp with particular directions to leave the windows open, that my sitting-room might be aired, and purged of his presence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere and the rooms were musty as though they hadn't been aired for many days.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)