aviator

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person who flies or operates an aircraft, especially a military or early aircraft pilot

   The pioneering aviator completed the dangerous flight across the ocean.

Borrowed in the early twentieth century from French aviateur, formed on aviation. The word family was coined from Latin avis ('bird') and came into use during the first decades of powered flight.

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