Other forms: eyries
An eyrie is an eagle's nest high on a crag. Build an eyrie, the eagle's eyrie, an eyrie above the valley.
The same pair often use one for decades, adding to it each year until it is enormous. The word transfers to any house or room with a commanding view from a height. American spelling is aerie, and both are pronounced with the same first sound as air.
1nouneyrieAn eagle's nest high on a crag.
“The eagles built their eyrie on a ledge high above the valley.”
eyrie is a nest.
Also accepted in games: aerie
Old French aire, a nest, perhaps from Latin area, a level space, or from a word for the bird's own kind.
Medieval Latin
aeria
Old French
aire
Middle English
eire
English, today
eyrie
From Middle English eire, aire, from Old French aire or Medieval Latin aeria. Old French aire, in the sense of an eagle's nest, may have derived from Latin ager, or may less likely be related to the other senses, ultimately from Latin ārea.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA