Usually means: Medium for light wave propagation.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word ether:

General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. ether, the ether: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ether, the ether: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ether: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ether, the ether: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ether: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ether, ether: Wordnik
  7. ether, the ether: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ether, ether: Wiktionary
  9. ether: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ether: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ether: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ether: Dictionary.com
  13. ether: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ether: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ether (B.o.B album), Ether (Babble album), Ether (Book of Mormon prophet), Ether (Fischer-Z), Ether (Fischer-Z album), Ether (band), Ether (classical element), Ether (cryptocurrency), Ether (currency), Ether (song), Ether (value token), Ether, The ether: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ether: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ether: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ether: Rhymezone
  19. Ether: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ether: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ether: Free Dictionary
  22. ether: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ether: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. ether: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. ether: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ether-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ether: Energy Dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ETHER: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Ether: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. Ether (chemistry), Ether (disambiguation), The Ether, ether: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ether (chemistry), ether: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. ether: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ether: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Ether: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  3. Ether: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Ether: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ether: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ether: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Explosives (No longer online)
  5. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See etheric as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable, literary or poetic) The substance formerly supposed to fill the upper regions of the atmosphere above the clouds, in particular as a medium breathed by deities.
noun:  (by extension) The medium breathed by human beings; the air.
noun:  (by extension) The sky, the heavens; the void, nothingness.
noun:  (uncountable, physics, historical) Often as aether and more fully as luminiferous aether: a substance once thought to fill all unoccupied space that allowed electromagnetic waves to pass through it and interact with matter, without exerting any resistance to matter or energy; its existence was disproved by the 1887 Michelson–Morley experiment and the theory of relativity propounded by Albert Einstein (1879–1955).
noun:  (uncountable, colloquial) The atmosphere or space as a medium for broadcasting radio and television signals; also, a notional space through which Internet and other digital communications take place; cyberspace.
noun:  (uncountable, colloquial) A particular quality created by or surrounding an object, person, or place; an atmosphere, an aura.
noun:  (uncountable, organic chemistry) Diethyl ether (C₄H₁₀O), an organic compound with a sweet odour used in the past as an anaesthetic.
noun:  (countable, organic chemistry) Any of a class of organic compounds containing an oxygen atom bonded to two hydrocarbon groups.
noun:  (uncountable) Starting fluid.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To viciously humiliate or insult.
noun:  (Roman mythology) The god-personification of the bright, glowing upper air of heaven. He is the Roman counterpart of Aether.
noun:  (cryptocurrencies) A unit of the Ethereum digital currency, ETH.
noun:  (Mormonism) The ancient American prophet of Mormon theology who wrote the Book of Ether in the Book of Mormon.
verb:  (UK dialectal) Alternative form of edder [(obsolete, transitive) To bind the top of, interweaving edder.]
noun:  (cryptocurrencies) Alternative letter-case form of Ether [(Roman mythology) The god-personification of the bright, glowing upper air of heaven. He is the Roman counterpart of Aether.]

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