Definition of In the air

1. Adverb. On everybody's mind. "Christmas was in the air"

Exact synonyms: In Everyone's Thoughts

Definition of In the air

1. Adverb. In the surrounding ambience ¹

2. Adverb. In the global feeling, idea, atmosphere(,) or mood of the time. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of In The Air

in sum
in summary
in suspense(p)
in tandem
in tears
in terms of
in terrorem clause
in terrorem clauses
in that
in that location
in that respect
in the abstract
in the act
in the adjacent apartment
in the adjacent house
in the air (current term)
in the altogether
in the bag
in the ballpark
in the bargain
in the beginning
in the black
in the blink of an eye
in the buff
in the cards
in the clear
in the crosshairs
in the dark

Literary usage of In the air

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, Jenny H. Stickney (1898)
"A CASTLE in the air. CHAPTER IX. • A CASTLE IX THE AIR. A FTER breakfast, my wife told Jack and Ernest to -*--*- put the harness she had made on the cow and ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Regnault analyzed air collected in different parts of the world, and found that the volume-percentage of oxygen in the air of Europe varied from 20.903 to ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"In addition to these flattened cells, there are small polygonal granular cells in the air-sacs, in clusters of two or three, between the others. ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"The sound in the air is due to the vibrations in the particles of air. More vibrations per second give a higher pitch of sound. ..."

5. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, Jenny H. Stickney (1898)
"A CASTLE in the air. CHAPTER IX. • A CASTLE IX THE AIR. A FTER breakfast, my wife told Jack and Ernest to -*--*- put the harness she had made on the cow and ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Regnault analyzed air collected in different parts of the world, and found that the volume-percentage of oxygen in the air of Europe varied from 20.903 to ..."

7. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1901)
"In addition to these flattened cells, there are small polygonal granular cells in the air-sacs, in clusters of two or three, between the others. ..."

8. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"The sound in the air is due to the vibrations in the particles of air. More vibrations per second give a higher pitch of sound. ..."

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