"Aviatrix" is the noun for a female pilot.
The nouns aviatrix and aviator have become obsolete in favor of the common gender noun "pilot".
An aviator is a noun for a male; an aviatrix is a noun for a female.
Back in the olden days when women were assigned a different noun for the same occupation, and a male pilot was called an aviator, a female pilot was called an aviatrix.
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The plural form for the noun aviator is aviators.
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a female aviator
An aviatress is a female aviator.
no,it's singular
The gender specific noun for a female who files a plane is aviatrix.The gender specific noun for a male who flies a plane is aviator.These words have become obsolete in favor of the common gender noun, pilot (a word for a male or a female who flies a plane).
The word 'aviator' is a noun, a singular, common noun; a word for a male who flies an airplane, a pilot.See the Related Link listed below for more information:
Jean Batten, New Zealand's premier female aviator.