balloon
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Noun (2)balloons
- large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated airType of lighter-than-air craftKinds trial balloon, hot-air balloon, meteorological balloonParts ripcord, envelope
- small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neckType of plaything, toy
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Translations
Noun inflatable and buoyant object
- Spanish
- globo
- French
- ballon
- German
- Ballon
- Italian
- palloncino
- Portuguese
- balão
- Turkish
- balon
- Russian
- возду́шный шар vozdúšnyj šar
- Arabic
- بَالُون bālūn
- Chinese
- 气球 qìqiú
- Japanese
- 風船 fūsen
28 more languages
- Dutch
- ballon
- Polish
- balon
- Swedish
- ballong
- Greek
- μπαλόνι balóni
- Korean
- 기구 gigu
- Indonesian
- balon
- Vietnamese
- khí cầu
- Hungarian
- léggömb
- Portuguese (PT)
- balão
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 氣球 qìqiú
- Albanian
- balonë
- Catalan
- globus
- Czech
- balón
- Danish
- ballon
- Esperanto
- balono
- Estonian
- õhupall
- Finnish
- ilmapallo
- Georgian
- აეროსტატი aerosṭaṭi
- Hebrew
- בָּלוֹן balón
- Icelandic
- blaðra
- Kurdish
- balon
- Lithuanian
- balionas
- Norwegian
- ballong
- Romanian
- balon
- Serbo-Croatian
- balon
- Slovak
- balón
- Swahili
- puto
- Welsh
- balŵn
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. ballon, aug. of balle ball: cf. It. ballone. See 1st Ball, noun, and cf. Pallone.
1. A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aërial navigation.
2. Architecture A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. rare
3. Chemistry A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
4. Pyrotechnics A bomb or shell. obsolete
5. A game played with a large inflated ball. obsolete
6. Engraving The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
Air balloon, a balloon for aërial navigation. — Balloon frame Carpentry, a house frame constructed altogether of small timber. — Balloon net, a variety of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around the warp.
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
1. To go up or voyage in a balloon.
2. To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54