How to pronounce air

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What air means

noun

Most people know air in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

A simple tune or melody

In a sentence: The fiddler played a sweet old air while everyone listened quietly.

Where it comes from: It comes through French and Latin from the Greek aer, the same word as the air we breathe.

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