pilot

1. 1.

   operate an airplane

   “The pilot flew to Cuba”

   Synonymsflyaviate

   Broaderoperate

   Narrowerfly blindfly contactsolotest flyjetglidehydroplaneballoonhedgehophang glide

   air travel · aircraft

2. 2.

   act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance

   “Is anyone volunteering to navigate during the trip?”

   “Who was navigating the ship during the accident?”

   Synonymsnavigate

   Broadersteer

   Narrowerastrogate

Other forms of pilot

plural

pilots·

past tense

pilotted·

present participle

pilotting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pilot

What does pilot mean?

pilot means "someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pilot?

pilot has 2 syllables: pi-lot. The stress falls on "pi". In IPA it is /ˈpaɪlət/.

What is another word for pilot?

Close synonyms include airplane pilot, pilot program, pilot film, original, archetype. 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 pilot a common word?

pilot is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with pilot?

1 word rhymes with pilot. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.