Dictionary Entry
balloon
balloon is a 7-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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 aerial navigation. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 13 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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 aerial navigation.
- 2noun
A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
- 3noun
A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
- 4noun
A bomb or shell.
- 5noun
A game played with a large inflated ball.
- 6noun
The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
- 7transitive verb
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
- 8intransitive verb
To go up or voyage in a balloon.
- 9intransitive verb
To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
- 10noun
large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air
- 11noun
small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck
- 12verb
become inflated
"The sails ballooned"
- 13verb
ride in a hot-air balloon
"He tried to balloon around the earth but storms forced him to land in China"
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