aviator
noun/ˈeɪvieɪtə(r)/
/ˈeɪvieɪtər/
(old-fashioned)- a person who flies an aircraft
- One of Australia’s pioneering women aviators learnt to fly in the 1930s.
- an intrepid aviator
Oxford Collocations DictionaryAviator is used before these nouns:- sunglasses
Word Originlate 19th cent.: from French aviateur, from Latin avis ‘bird’.Definitions on the go
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