Definitions for balloons

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balloons bal·loon

Spelling: [buh-loon]

IPA: /bəˈlun/

Balloons is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 176 anagrams from letters in balloons (abllnoos).

Definitions for balloons

noun

1. a bag made of thin rubber or other light material, usually brightly colored, inflated with air or with some lighter-than-air gas and used as a children's plaything or as a decoration.
2. a bag made of a light material, as silk or plastic, filled with heated air or a gas lighter than air, designed to rise and float in the atmosphere and often having a car or gondola attached below for carrying passengers or scientific instruments.
3. (in drawings, cartoons, etc.) a balloon-shaped outline enclosing words represented as issuing from the mouth of the speaker.
4. an ornamental ball at the top of a pillar, pier, or the like.
5. a large, globular wineglass.
6. Chemistry Now Rare. a round-bottomed flask.

adjective

1. puffed out like a balloon:
2. Finance. (of a loan, mortgage, or the like) having a payment at the end of the term that is much bigger than previous ones.

verb (used with object)

1. to fill with air; inflate or distend (something) like a balloon.

verb (used without object)

1. to go up or ride in a balloon.
2. to swell or puff out like a balloon.
3. to multiply or increase at a rapid rate:

Origin of balloons

1570-80; Upper Italian ballone, equivalent to ball(a) (Langobardic; see ball¹) + -one augmentative suffix; or Middle French ballon Upper Italian

Examples for balloons

South Korean activists are already planning to loft them over the Demilitarized Zone in balloons.

Shortly thereafter, Facebook announced a similar initiative, although their plan calls for the use of drones instead of balloons.

Besides, if there were a roof over it, how could the balloons go up?

As the balloons and electricity scared us, inhibitions were naturally lowered and I saw the flirtation begin.

She had been in balloons, but she had never seen an unrestricted tiger.

The balloons were strained, contorted out of all proportion in their eagerness.

We want 73 party hats, 400 balloons, a cake for 125 and any of the girls that are available in those costumes you sent up before.

There were balloons everywhere, as the crowd shoved and pushed into the line of march.

I had 17 32,000-watt balloons rigged to 100-foot rain bars, and four cameras in the rain.

The mass of the French people did not regard these balloons with Franklin's serenity.