Aerophile

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Any air-breathing organism.
  2. 2
    a lover of aviation wordnet
  3. 3
    One who has an interest in flying.

    "Through Chanute, the Wrights gained immediate access to Chanute's own experimentation with gliders, his prolific correspondence with like-minded aerophiles[…]"

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"Through Chanute, the Wrights gained immediate access to Chanute's own experimentation with gliders, his prolific correspondence with like-minded aerophiles[…]"

Etymology

From aero- + -phile.

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