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WALKING ON AIR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does walking on air mean?
• WALKING ON AIR (noun)
The noun WALKING ON AIR has 1 sense:
1. a state of extreme happiness
Familiarity information: WALKING ON AIR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state of extreme happiness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
bliss; blissfulness; cloud nine; seventh heaven; walking on air
Hypernyms ("walking on air" is a kind of...):
elation (an exhilarating psychological state of pride and optimism; an absence of depression)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "walking on air"):
ecstasy; rapture (a state of elated bliss)
Derivation:
walk on air (feel extreme happiness or elation)
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