Definitions for balloon

balloon bal·loon

Spelling: [buh-loon]
IPA: /bəˈlun/

Balloon is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in balloon (abllnoo).

Definitions for balloon

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 balloon

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

Examples for balloon

Our journey must now be compared to the descent from cloud-land in a balloon.

We are always, metaphorically, going up or coming down in a balloon.

Taking your cues from Koons is like singing inside a balloon.

Well, up in a balloon there ain't any of that, and it's the darlingest place there is.

Manned, unmanned, a balloon, a kite—you still have to get the information into the hands of the firefighters.

A balloon popped and the sound was enough like a gunshot to make everybody jump.

The first balloon ascent was made from this little town in 1783.

Eyebrows Cressida: Imagine eyebrows drawn on a balloon with a blackened cork.

But soon before he could get to work, he lost control of the balloon he had designed and built himself.

We was used to the balloon now and not afraid any more, and didn't want to be anywheres else.

Word Value for balloon
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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