Ethereal means pertaining to ether, the air or the sky. It may also refer to:
- Essential oil, also called ethereal oil, a concentrated, hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants
- Ethereal (horse), a horse that won Australia's Caulfield and Melbourne Cups in 2001
- Ethereal Home Theatre, a company that specializes in home theatre cables, but also makes other audio/video products
- Ethereal wave, a genre of dark wave music
- Ethereal Plane, a plane of existence in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
- Wireshark, formerly named Ethereal, a software network traffic analyzer
Famous quotes containing the word ethereal:
“Hail holy Light, of spring of Heavn first-born,
Or of th Eternal Coeternal beam
May I express thee unblamd? since God is Light,
And never but in unapproached Light
Dwelt from Eternitie, dwelt then in thee,
Bright effluence of bright essence in create.
Or hearst thou rather pure Ethereal stream,
Whose Fountain who shall tell?”
—John Milton (16081674)
“The mind is a finer body, and resumes its functions of feeding, digesting, absorbing, excluding, and generating, in a new and ethereal element. Here, in the brain, is all the process of alimentation repeated, in the acquiring, comparing, digesting, and assimilating of experience. Here again is the mystery of generation repeated.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The Spacious Firmament on high,
With all the blue Ethereal Sky,
And spangled Heavns, a Shining Frame,
Their great Original proclaim:
Th unwearied Sun, from day to day,
Does his Creators Powr display,
And publishes to every Land
The Work of an Almighty Hand.”
—Joseph Addison (16721719)