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aviator

noun
🔊/ˈeɪvieɪtə(r)/
🔊/ˈeɪvieɪtər/
 (old-fashioned)
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  1. a person who flies an aircraft飞行员；飞机驾驶员
    • One of Australia’s pioneering women aviators learnt to fly in the 1930s.澳大利亚的一位先锋女性飞行员之一在1930年代学会了飞行。
    • an intrepid aviator勇敢的飞行员
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    Oxford Collocations DictionaryAviator is used before these nouns:
    • sunglasses
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    Word Originlate 19th cent.: from French aviateur, from Latin avis ‘bird’.