aeronaut

[air-uh-nawt, -not]

aer·o·naut

[air-uh-nawt, -not]
noun
1.
the pilot of a balloon or other lighter-than-air aircraft.
2.
a traveler in an airship.

Origin:
1775–85; < French aéronaute < Greek āero- aero- + naútēs sailor; compare nautical, Argonaut
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Aeronaut is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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aeronaut (ˈɛərəˌnɔːt)
 
n
a person who flies in a lighter-than-air craft, esp the pilot or navigator

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