To mount on wings, or as on wings, through the air; fly aloft, as a bird or other winged creature; specifically, to rise and remain on the wing without visible movements of the pinions.To mount or rise aloft; rise, or seem to rise, lightly in the air.To float, as at the surface of a liquid.To rise mentally, morally, or socially; aspire beyond the commonplace or ordinary level.n. The act of soaring, or rising in the air.n. The height attained in soaring; the range of one who or that which soars.n. See sore.