Definition of "aeronaut" []

• A pilot or navigator of a lighter-than-air craft, such as a balloon. (noun)

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• "The aeronaut is strapped into a carrier, attached to a sail wing of nylon stretched on an aluminium frame like a paper dart, and jumps into the air from a high place."
• "“Land,” called the aeronaut, his voice small against the whistling of the air over the wind-screen."
• "Japanese, and it is characteristic that from the first it was contemplated that the aeronaut should be a swordsman."