orville wright

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   United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948)

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Questions about orville wright

What does orville wright mean?

orville wright means "United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948)".

What is another word for orville wright?

Close synonyms include Wright. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is orville wright a common word?

orville wright 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.