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Definition of Aeronaut
1. Noun. Someone who operates an aircraft.
Specialized synonyms: Airwoman, Aviatress, Aviatrix, Airplane Pilot, Pilot
Generic synonyms: Skilled Worker, Skilled Workman, Trained Worker
Specialized synonyms: Bennett, Floyd Bennett, Bleriot, Louis Bleriot, Cochran, Jacqueline Cochran, Doolittle, James Harold Doolittle, Jimmy Doolittle, Amelia Earhart, Earhart, Howard Hughes, Howard Robard Hughes, Hughes, Charles A. Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Charles Lindbergh, Lindbergh, Lucky Lindy, Billy Mitchell, Mitchell, William Mitchell, Post, Wiley Post
Derivative terms: Airmanship, Aviate, Fly, Fly
Definition of Aeronaut
1. Noun. One who glides through the air in an airship or balloon ¹
2. Noun. balloonist ¹
3. Noun. (alternative spelling of (aeronaut)) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aeronaut
1. one who operates an airship [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aeronaut
Literary usage of Aeronaut
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... Gauchos riding—Character of Inhabitants—Rio Plata—Flocks of Butterflies—aeronaut
Spiders— Phosphorescence of the Sea—Port Desire—Guanaco—Port St. ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... Plata—Flocks of Butterflies—aeronaut Spiders— Phosphorescence of the Sea—Port
Desire—Guanaco—Port St. Julian—Geology of Patagonia—Fossil gigantic ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"It would have been a noteworthy step in the right direction, but the muscular
power of his imaginary aeronaut would have been far from sufficient to control ..."
4. Poems by Belle Richardson Harrison (1898)
"THE DESCENT OF THE aeronaut. A GANG of darkies, hoeing corn one day, Beheld a
something ... Out stepped the aeronaut, most gaily dressed With red and tinsel ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"Tho longest journey heretofore made in a balloon was five hundred miles, performed
many years ago by Mr. Green, the well-known English aeronaut. ..."
6. The Aerial World: A Popular Account of the Phenomena and Life of the Atmosphere. by Georg Hartwig (1875)
"... the First aeronaut—Aerial Voyage of Charles and Robert—The ... Wilcox—James
Tytler, the First English aeronaut—The ' Flesselles' Balloon—Madame ..."
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