Definition of balloon

• n. - A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
• n. - A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
• n. - A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
• n. - A bomb or shell.
• n. - A game played with a large inflated ball.
• n. - The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
• v. t. - To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
• v. i. - To go up or voyage in a balloon.
• v. i. - To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
• n. - A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
• n. - A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
• n. - A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
• n. - A bomb or shell.
• n. - A game played with a large inflated ball.
• n. - The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
• v. t. - To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
• v. i. - To go up or voyage in a balloon.
• v. i. - To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.