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pilots

/ˈpaɪləts/

pilots is the plural of pilot.

pilots is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pilot.

Meaning of pilot

Noun

pilot (plural pilots)

  1. A person who steers a ship, a helmsman.
    • They scud before the wind, and sail in open sea.
      Ahead of all the master pilot steers;
      And, as he leads, the following navy veers.1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
  2. A person who knows well the depths, shoals, and currents of a harbor or coastal area, who is hired by a vessel to help navigate the harbor or coast.
  3. A guide book for maritime navigation.
  4. An instrument for detecting the compass error.
  5. (Australia, informal) A pilot vehicle.
  6. (Australia) A person authorised to drive such a vehicle during an escort.

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Noun capitalized: PILOTs

PILOTs

  1. (plural) plural of PILOT

Phrases with pilots

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Questions about pilots

What is pilots the plural of?
Pilots is the plural of pilot.
What part of speech is pilots?
Pilots is a noun.
How do you pronounce pilots?
Pilots is pronounced /ˈpaɪləts/.

Words near pilots in the dictionary

  1. pilotmen
  2. Piloto
  3. Pilotos
  4. pilotries
  5. pilotry
  6. pilots
  7. pilots flying
  8. pilots in command
  9. pilots monitoring
  10. pilots not flying
  11. pilotship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pilots (page history and authors); PILOTs (page history and authors); pilot (page history and authors). 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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