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Definition of Thin air
1. Noun. Nowhere to be found in a giant void. "It vanished into thin air"
Definition of Thin air
1. Noun. (idiomatic figuratively usually humorous) An unknown location. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thin Air
Literary usage of Thin air
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1897)
"translated before his time to the thin air of heaven. As I was desirous to recover
the long lost bottom of Walden Pond, I surveyed it carefully, ..."
2. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods: Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"... his time to the thin air of heaven. As I was desirous to recover the long lost
bottom of Walden Pond, I surveyed it carefully, before the ice broke up, ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"In front of that they have got the peculiar thin air space of the modern ...
This has the mouthpiece like the Blake and the thin air space inside. ..."
4. The Village: Russian Impressions by Ernest Poole (1918)
"... but in spite of my efforts to listen to him, he kept melting away into thin
air; and in his place there appeared in this room an uncouth figure, sinewy, ..."
5. Synonyms Discriminated: A Dictionary of Synonymous Words in the English by Charles John Smith (1893)
"THIN has its secondary and analogous sensée ; as, the opposite to dense, thin
air, or thin crops; flimsy, as a thin disguise or pretext. ..."
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