radio aerial

1. 1.

   omnidirectional antenna comprising the part of a radio receiver by means of which radio signals are received

   Synonymsradio antenna

   Broaderomnidirectional antenna

Questions about radio aerial

What does radio aerial mean?

radio aerial means "omnidirectional antenna comprising the part of a radio receiver by means of which radio signals are received".

What is another word for radio aerial?

Close synonyms include radio antenna. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is radio aerial a common word?

radio aerial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.