balloonistn.
/bəˈluːnɪst/, U.S. /bəˈlunəst/ A person who pilots or travels in a balloon; an aeronaut. Also figurative.
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1784 Morning Herald 10 Aug. 3/1 Mr. Smeathman, an active and distinguished Balloonist.
1870 Standard 7 Dec. The balloonists had a narrow escape of being carried out into the Atlantic.
1906 Daily Chron. 28 Aug. 4/4 If you are a balloonist in the social world, you may find a difficulty with the soup.
1931 Sci. Monthly July 34/1 Every balloonist who has survived being caught in a thunderstorm can tell a graphic tale of the way in which these currents tossed the balloon about.
1960 Geogr. Jrnl. 126 553 The earliest advocate of special aeronautical maps was the German officer and balloonist, Hermann Moedebeck.
2006 Mail on Sunday 14 May 23 He..was the first balloonist to fly over the Swiss Alps.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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