hot-air balloon

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   balloon for travel through the air in a basket suspended below a large bag of heated air

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Questions about hot-air balloon

What does hot-air balloon mean?

hot-air balloon means "balloon for travel through the air in a basket suspended below a large bag of heated air".

Is hot-air balloon a common word?

hot-air balloon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.