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 Heav’n first-born,
Or of th’ Eternal Coeternal beam
May I express thee unblam’d? 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 hear’st thou rather pure Ethereal stream,
Whose Fountain who shall tell?”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“But seldom the laurel wreath is seen
Unmixed with pensive pansies dark;
There’s a light and a shadow on every man
Who at last attains his lifted mark—
Nursing through night the ethereal spark.
Elate he never can be;
He feels that spirits which glad had hailed his worth,
Sleep in oblivion.—The shark
Glides white through the phosphorus sea.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The Spacious Firmament on high,
With all the blue Ethereal Sky,
And spangled Heav’ns, a Shining Frame,
Their great Original proclaim:
Th’ unwearied Sun, from day to day,
Does his Creator’s Pow’r display,
And publishes to every Land
The Work of an Almighty Hand.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)