flier

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fli=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

flier, n. [Form Fly, v.; cf. Flyer].

•  One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  A fly. See Fly, n., 9, and 13 (b).  [1913 Webster]
•  See Flyer, n., 5.  [1913 Webster]
•  See Flyer, n., 4.  [1913 Webster]
•  An aëroplane or flying machine.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

flier, var. of FLYER.

THESAURUS

flier

Amtrak, Jehu, acrobat, aerialist, aeronaut, aeroplaner, aeroplanist, agiotage, air pilot, airman, airplanist, arbitrage, astronaut, aviator, baggage train, bareback rider, barnstormer, birdman, buying in, cable railroad, calculated risk, captain, chance, choo-choo, circus artist, cloud seeder, clown, cog railroad, cog railway, commercial pilot, copilot, crop-duster, el, electric, electric train, elevated, equestrian director, equilibrist, equity capital, express, express train, flutter, fortune, freight, freight train, freighter, funicular, gamble, goer, goods train, hazard, hell-driver, high-wire artist, horse racer, hummer, hustler, instructor, interurban, jet jockey, jockey, juggler, licensed pilot, lightning express, limited, lion tamer, liquidation, local, luck, metro, milk train, monorail, parliamentary, parliamentary train, passenger train, pilot, play, plunge, profit taking, racer, rack-and-pinion railroad, railroad train, rainmaker, rattler, ringmaster, risk, rolling stock, round trade, runner, scalping, scorcher, shuttle, shuttle train, sizzler, slack-rope artist, snake charmer, special, speculation, speed demon, speeder, spot sale, stepper, stockjobbery, stockjobbing, streamliner, stunt flier, stunt man, subway, sword swallower, test pilot, tightrope walker, train, trapeze artist, tube, tumbler, turfman, turn, uncertainty, underground, venture, venture capital, way train, wingman

ROGET THESAURUS

flier

Mariner

N sailor, mariner, navigator, seaman, seafarer, seafaring man, dock walloper, tar, jack tar, salt, able seaman, A, B, man-of-war's man, bluejacket, galiongee, galionji, marine, jolly, midshipman, middy, skipper, shipman, boatman, ferryman, waterman, lighterman, bargeman, longshoreman, bargee, gondolier, oar, oarsman, rower, boatswain, cockswain, coxswain, steersman, pilot, crew, aerial navigator, aeronaut, balloonist, Icarus, aeroplanist, airman, aviator, birdman, man-bird, wizard of the air, aviatrix, flier, pilot, test pilot, glider pilot, bush pilot, navigator, flight attendant, steward, stewardess, crew, astronaut, cosmonaut, parachutist, paratrooper.