English Explanatory Dictionary

on air

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prep_phrase
  1. Broadcasting or transmitting through the medium of radio or television.
  2. Being, or so as to be, broadcast or transmitted by radio or television.
  3. Smoothly; gracefully.
  4. Happily.
  5. Won with a high card though capturing only small cards.
  6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, air.

Word forms

on air on-air

Etymology

The broadcasting sense derives from the early use of radio, literally sending the transmission on the air waves.

Synonyms

on the air

Antonyms

off air
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