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/ˈeɪviˌeɪtər/ Listen

noun

Aviator n.

An experimenter in aviation.

A flying machine. (archaic)

The driver or pilot of an aircraft, especially of an airplane.

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Etymology of 'Aviator'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Aviator" Quotes from Famous Books

... helicopter wings and drifted downward. Kay saw a single pilot, and, in the baggage compartment something that at first he did not recognize. Then he recognized both this object and the aviator. ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various

... ventured over the lines, flying high, and English planes had swept up to intercept them. One was rising then not far away, climbing fast, like a fish-hawk with prey in its claws. Its color, its framework, its propeller, and its aviator showed distinctly against the sky. The buzzing, high-pitched drone of its motor ...

— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey

... damp trenches of the battlefields abroad the men need protection from the dampness and cold, which ordinary clothing will not provide. It was found that the leather-lined huntsmen's coats, and the sort of garments worn by the chauffeur, the aviator and the mountaineer served the men in the trenches well, and particularly along the Russian frontier and ...

— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller

... had money," said his father. "The German probably was an aviator. And they stole the airplane in order to escape from here quickly before we could get in pursuit of them. I imagine they'll land in some deserted spot—plenty of them in the sandy reaches along the New Jersey coast, for instance—make ...

— The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border • Gerald Breckenridge

... than you," replied the puzzled young aviator, "the only reason I can advance is that at the polar cap some strange influences rule the wind currents and that we are caught in a polar eddy, ...

— The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash - Or - Facing Death in the Antarctic • Captain Wilbur Lawton

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