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BALLOONIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does balloonist mean? 

BALLOONIST (noun)
  The noun BALLOONIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who flies a balloonplay

  Familiarity information: BALLOONIST used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BALLOONIST (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who flies a balloon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("balloonist" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Instance hyponyms:

Josef Michel Montgolfier; Montgolfier (French inventor who (with his brother Jacques Etienne Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1740-1810))

Jacques Etienne Montgolfier; Montgolfier (French inventor who (with his brother Josef Michel Montgolfier) pioneered hot-air ballooning (1745-1799))

Derivation:

balloon (large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air)

balloon (ride in a hot-air balloon)


 Context examples 


"After a time," continued Oz, "I tired of that, and became a balloonist."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)



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