aerobody

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noun

A vehicle or engineered body designed to travel through air.

OriginEnglish body ← Middle English bodi ← Old English bodiġ →
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Meanings

nounaerobody (plural aerobodies)

plural aerobodies

  1. A vehicle or engineered body designed to travel through air.

    Whether the much larger, helium-filled 'aerobodies' the Aereon Corporation would like to build would be successful remains an open question.

    1974, Basil Collier, The Airship: a History, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 230, column 1

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ewsér
  3. Proto-Hellenic*auhḗr
  4. Ancient Greekᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)
  5. Ancient Greekἀέρος (aéros)
  6. Englishaero-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*bʰewdʰ-der.?
  8. Proto-Germanic*budagą
  9. Proto-West Germanic*bodag
  10. Old Englishbodiġ
  11. Middle Englishbodi
  12. Englishbody
  13. Englishaerobody

From aero- + body.

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APA

aerobody. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aerobody

MLA

“aerobody.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aerobody. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “aerobody,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/aerobody.

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