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balloonist

noun

Etymology

From balloon + -ist.

  1. derived from *bʰel-✻
  2. derived from *bʰoln-✻
  3. derived from *ballô✻
  4. derived from *ballu✻ — “ball”
  5. derived from balle
  6. derived from *palla✻
  7. derived from pallone
  8. derived from ballon
  9. formed as balloonist — “balloon + -ist”

Definitions

  1. A person who flies in balloons, especially in hot-air balloons.

    • But his greatest achievement, the balloonist said, was a flight he made in Australia in November 1984, using the prototype of the balloon in which he intends to circle the world.
    • Like surfers trying to catch a wave, balloonists try to ride jet streams.

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