aerialist
/ˈɛəɹɪəlɪst/noun
aerialist is a noun meaning “An acrobat performing high off the ground, defying a fall to earth, as on a trapeze or a tightrope” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-E-R-I-A-L-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of aerialist is aerialists.
What does aerialist mean?
noun
- 1
An acrobat performing high off the ground, defying a fall to earth, as on a trapeze or a tightrope.
- 2
A specialist in aerials, a freestyle skiing discipline.
- 3
obsoleteOne who operates a flying machine; a balloonist or aviator.
- 4
obsoleterareA person whose knowledge of agriculture is purely academic and not derived from experience.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce aerialist?
- /ˈɛəɹɪəlɪst/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of aerialist
- aerialists plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is aerialist?
Aerialist appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does aerialist come from?
From aerial + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).