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What (who) is eyrie - definition
eyrie
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Eyries; Eyrie (disambiguation)
(eyries)
Note: in AM, use 'aerie'
1.
If you refer to a place such as a house or a castle as an eyrie, you mean it is built high up and is difficult to reach. (LITERARY)
...marooned in my 48th floor eyrie in the sky.
N-COUNT: with supp
2.
An eyrie is the nest of a bird of prey such as an eagle, and is usually built high up in the mountains.
N-COUNT
eyrie
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Eyries; Eyrie (disambiguation)
['??ri, '??ri, '?:ri]
(US also aerie)
¦ noun a large nest of an eagle or other bird of prey, built high in a tree or on a cliff.
Origin
C15: from med. L. aeria, aerea, eyria, prob. from OFr. aire, from L. area 'level piece of ground', in late L. 'nest of a bird of prey'.
Wikipedia
Eyrie
An eyrie (a variant of aerie) is a bird nest of an eagle, falcon, hawk, or other bird of prey.
Examples of use of eyrie
1. Seen from the 38th floor, the eyrie of the secretariat, the threat is serious.
2. Since then more than 70 young have been reared at the eyrie and more than two million people have visited the RSPB centre overlooking it.
3. But we‘re happy, because, however much Maher might lampoon us from his pavilion eyrie, Pratt has a great story to tell.
4. Another made the more serious point that the high–level mishap illustrated the desperate need for refurbishment of Downing Street, where Lord Birt has his eyrie.
5. Afghanistan Election Taliban threat major election plank Climate of fear may affect polls Nomads care more about rain and sheep than who rules in Kabul Saleh Registani‘s call to arms in the wood–beamed eyrie that still acts as a store for hundreds of missiles only the spent shells are kept outside fell on deaf ears.