单词 | air-balloonist |
释义 | air-balloonistn. A person who travels in an air balloon (air balloon n. 2); an aeronaut. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > balloonist ballooner1783 aeronaut1784 airgonaut1784 balloonist1784 aerostat1788 air-balloonist1791 voyager1826 air sailor1834 balloon driver1838 balloonatic1854 hot-air balloonist1887 1791 J. S. Charrier Nugent's New Pocket Dict. French & Eng. (ed. 6) i. 6/2 Aëronaute, air-balloonist. 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxiii. 346 The aërial excursions of our insect air-balloonist. 1996 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 22 July a10 Belarussian border guards shot down two U.S. air-balloonists competing in a race across Europe. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1791 |
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