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    AVIATOR

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Someone who operates an aircraftplay

    Synonyms:

    aeronaut; airman; aviator; flier; flyer

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

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

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

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aviator"):

    airwoman; aviatress; aviatrix (a woman aviator)

    airplane pilot; pilot (someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight)

    Instance hyponyms:

    Bennett; Floyd Bennett (United States aviator who (with Richard E. Byrd) piloted the first flight over the North Pole (1890-1928))

    Bleriot; Louis Bleriot (French aviator who in 1909 made the first flight across the English Channel (1872-1936))

    Cochran; Jacqueline Cochran (United States aviator who held several speed records and headed the women's Air Force pilots in World War II (1910-1980))

    Doolittle; James Harold Doolittle; Jimmy Doolittle (United States Air Force officer who electrified the world in 1942 by leading a squadron of 16 bombers on a daylight raid over Tokyo (1896-1993))

    Amelia Earhart; Earhart (first woman aviator to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic (1928); while attempting to fly around the world she disappeared over the Pacific (1898-1937))

    Howard Hughes; Howard Robard Hughes; Hughes (United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976))

    Charles A. Lindbergh; Charles Augustus Lindbergh; Charles Lindbergh; Lindbergh; Lucky Lindy (United States aviator who in 1927 made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (1902-1974))

    Billy Mitchell; Mitchell; William Mitchell (United States aviator and general who was an early advocate of military air power (1879-1936))

    Post; Wiley Post (United States aviator who in 1933 made the first solo flight around the world (1899-1935))

    Derivation:

    aviate (operate an airplane)

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