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aviator

aviator noun: an aircraft pilot, especially a military pilot. The use of the word may imply claims of superior airmanship, as in navy aviator vs. air force pilot.

Noun

aviator (plural aviators)

  1. An aircraft pilot, especially a military pilot. The use of the word may imply claims of superior airmanship, as in navy aviator vs. air force pilot.
    • Ruth Elder was known for her beauty and acting, but her real dream was to become the female version of transatlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh.2016 November 15, Karla Pequenino, “The women pilots that history forgot”, in CNN
    • Two missing US Navy aviators have been declared dead, several days after their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier, Washington, during a training flight, the Navy said Sunday.2024 October 20, Haley Britzky, “Two missing Navy aviators declared dead days after aircraft crash in Washington state”, in CNN
  2. (obsolete) An experimenter in aviation.
  3. (obsolete) A flying machine.

aviator meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Punjabi

aviator in Hindi

विमानचालक, एविएटर

aviator in Tamil

வலவன், வானூர்தியாளர், வானோட்டி

aviator in Malayalam

pilot, airman, airwoman
വൈമാനികൻ, വിമാനചാലകൻ, വ്യോമചാരി, വിമാനത്തിന്റെ ചുക്കാൻപിടിക്കുന്നവൻ, ചുക്കാൻപിടിക്കുന്നവൾ, വിമാനം പറത്തുന്ന ആൾ

aviator in Punjabi

aviator
ਜਹਾਜ਼ੀ jahāzī
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aviator in Gujarati
એવિએટર
aviator in Tagalog
manlilipad
aviator in Arabic
طَيَّار ṭayyār
aviator in Malay
juruterbang
aviator in Indonesian
aviator, penerbang, juru terbang, pilot

Examples of aviator in a sentence

  • Aviators needed the space, he said, especially in cases of emergency.
  • If you are an aviator and you aren't an astraphobe, this article is meant for you.
  • "Everybody in the 8th Wing thinks he hung the moon," says one of Olds's aviators.

All 14 example sentences with aviator

Synonyms of aviator

Forms of aviator

pluralaviators

Plural of aviator: aviators

Origin of aviator

Borrowed from French aviateur. By surface analysis, avi- + -ator

Words formed from aviator

Questions about aviator

What does aviator mean?
Aviator means an aircraft pilot, especially a military pilot. The use of the word may imply claims of superior airmanship, as in navy aviator vs. air force pilot.
What is aviator in Hindi?
Aviator in Hindi is विमानचालक, एविएटर. See Aviator meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is aviator?
Aviator is a noun.
What is the plural of aviator?
The plural of aviator is aviators.

Words near aviator in the dictionary

  1. Aviation English
  2. aviation fuel
  3. aviation fuels
  4. aviations
  5. aviatophobia
  6. aviator
  7. aviator glasses
  8. aviator shades
  9. aviator sunglasses
  10. aviatorial
  11. aviators

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aviator (page history and authors); aviator (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); aviator (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aviator (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ਜਹਾਜ਼ੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); aviator (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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