aviatrix

[ ey-vee-ey-triks ]

noun

, plural a·vi·a·tri·ces [ey-vee-, ey, -tr, uh, -seez].

1. a woman who is a pilot; aviator.

Gender Note

What's the difference between aviatrix and aviator? See -trix.

Word History and Origins

Origin of aviatrix¹

First recorded in 1925–30; aviat(or) + -trix

Example Sentences

It is still legally named Bob Hope, after the entertainer, and not, to my perpetual surprise, for the aviatrix who helped to put it on the map, Amelia Earhart.

From Los Angeles Times

And according to Sammie Morris, archivist of the Earhart collection at Purdue University, they will cast the aviatrix in a new light.

From Washington Post

Her character was a crackerjack aviatrix, the leader of a criminal gang of female fliers enlisted in madman Auric Goldfinger’s scheme to rob Fort Knox.

From Washington Post

In the summer of 1937, famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart journeys into history in her attempt to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.

From Los Angeles Times

Explorer Robert Ballard scours the Pacific for clues to the fate of famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart in in the new docu-special “Expedition Amelia.”

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• aviator