aeronaut
noun/ˈeərənɔːt/
/ˈerənɔːt/
- a traveller in a hot-air balloon or airshipTopics Transport by airc2Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French aéronaute, from Greek aēr ‘air’ + nautēs ‘sailor’.
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