aviatorn.
/ˈeɪvɪeɪtə/, U.S. /ˈeɪviˌeɪdər/ΘΚΠ
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > [noun] > an aircraft > heavier-than-air aircraft
flying machine1736
aeronef1861
aeromotive1865
aviator1891
aeromotor1902
aerodyne1906
1891 Brooklyn Morning Jrnl. 22 July 1/6 (Funk) Mr. Maxim's invention is called an Aviator. It is in form like a huge kite of silk, to which hangs a platform carrying the engines and the screw propellers.
1892 Sci. Amer. 13 Feb. 105 Mr. Trouvé considers his apparatus as the lightest aviator that it is..possible to construct.
1895 Knowledge 2 Dec. 276/1 Mr. Maxim represents gunnery and the aviator flying machine.
1901 Flying Dec. 13 The non-rotative motor for use with wing-propelled aviators.
1908 V. Silberer in Aeronaut. Jrnl. July 51/1 A flying machine or aviator, however well constructed and furnished with such a motor.
2. The pilot of an aeroplane.In early use, as distinguished from an aeronaut, i.e., a balloonist.
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society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > person in control of aircraft or spacecraft > person in control of aircraft
aeronaut1784
airman1873
aviator1887
aviationist1895
birdman1908
flyer1934
microlighter1982
1887 tr. J. Verne Clipper of Clouds iv. 36 Mr. Aviator.., you who talk so much of the benefits of aviation, have you ever aviated?
1896 Westm. Gaz. 15 Sept. 1/3 Intending aviators and aeronauts.
1902 Daily Chron. 18 Sept. 3/3 Thus the aeronaut has so far accomplished more than the ‘aviator’.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 26 Oct. 1/3 Other ‘aviators’—the word has forced itself into the vocabulary, and it seems futile to resist it any longer—had other machines.
1911 Yorks. Post 3 Aug. 9/6 At height of 1,000 metres an aviator can find a submarine.
Compounds
aviator's ear n. (also aviators' ear) = aero- comb. form otitis media.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of ear > [noun] > inflammation
otitis1772
labyrinthitis1834
otitis externa1837
otitis interna1839
tympanitis1842
myringitis1857
otitis media1874
mastoiditis1881
mastoid1934
aerotitis media1937
aviator's ear1937
1937 Armstrong & Heim in Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 7 Aug. 419/1 In the United States the term ‘aviator's or aviation ear’ has begun to appear in the literature, while in Germany the terms ‘barotrauma’ and ‘tonetrauma’ have been suggested. The former are obviously unsuitable and the latter may be criticized as not being descriptive of the disease. We therefore suggest ‘aero-otitis media’..as a suitable descriptive term.
aviator's sickness n. (also aviators' sickness) (see quot. 1928 at aviation n. Compounds)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > occupational > aviators' disease
aviator's sickness1916
1916 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 3 June 357/2 What distinguishes aviators' sickness from mountain sickness is that the symptoms persist during descent and are aggravated after landing.
Derivatives
ˈaviatress n.
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1911 Aero June 74/2 Various articles on the subject of ‘Aviatresses’ which have appeared from time to time.
1919 Vote 1 Aug. 275/2 A Famous Aviatress [sc. Baroness de la Roche].
1921 Blackwood Mag. Dec. 716/1 I had been an aviatress.
ˈaviatrice n.
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society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > person in control of aircraft or spacecraft > person in control of aircraft > woman
airwoman1910
aviatrice1910
1910 Daily Chron. 5 Jan. 1/7 The aviatrice made a bad turn.
1921 Glasgow Herald 15 Oct. 10 Miss Madeleine Davis, a well-known aviatrice in the States.
aviˈatrix n. a female aviator or pilot.
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1927 Glasgow Herald 29 Sept. 11 The English aviatrix, Miss Evelyn Spooner.
Draft additions December 2006
Originally U.S.
a. attributive. Of or designating spectacles, esp. sunglasses, typically having a wire frame and large lenses, similar in shape to those worn by early aviators; chiefly in aviator sunglasses, aviator glasses, aviator shades.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom.
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1948 Van Nuys (Calif.) News 15 July i. 8/4 (advt.) Army air corps type aviator glasses.
1975 New Yorker 17 Mar. 31/1 We..got a friendly greeting from a small, enthusiastic man of middle age who was dressed in the olive-colored uniform of the Parks Department (plus yellow aviator sunglasses).
1991 Observer (Nexis) 5 May 32 Tom Cruise in Top Gun may have boosted sales of Ray-Ban aviator shades by 40 per cent.
2002 L. Pontius Waking Walt iii. 19 His..eyes peered through quarter inch thick lenses set in outsized gold aviator frames.
b. In plural. Aviator glasses or sunglasses.A proprietary name in the United Kingdom.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles > other types of spectacles
half-moon glasses1607
half-moon spectacles1607
blinkers1732
temple-spectacles1762
reading glass1853
distance glasses1864
horn spectacles1893
bifocal1899
trifocal1899
horn-rims1927
harlequin spectacles1940
harlequin glasses1945
library frame1948
aviator1951
library glasses1959
library spectacles1962
multifocals1962
wire-rim1968
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instruments for protecting the sight > [noun] > spectacles or eyeglasses > to protect the eyes from light
smoke-glass1770
sunglasses1817
dark glasses1861
sunspecs1907
Polaroids1940
aviator1951
sunnies1954
shade1958
sunshades1963
1951 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Post 27 June 19 (advt.) Gold metal frames ‘Tru-site’ aviators.
1973 Los Angeles Times 1 Feb. 8/4 (advt.) Foxy frames–including aviators, wire rims, sleek metallics, wraparounds and more.
1985 New Yorker 19 Aug. 21/2 The man with the freshly barbered beard..the purple-tinted aviators.
2003 Daily Tel. 29 July 15/1 Chloé's pink-tinted aviators, which are embossed with a diamanté heart.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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