parachutist

parachute +‎ -ist

parachutist (plural parachutists)

1. Someone who jumps from an aircraft using a parachute, especially as a sport.
   • 2002, Eric Anderson, The Man Who Cried Orange, page 239:

     I waited and he came to the point: he wanted me simply to talk to a patient he had inherited, a sports parachutist who had Roman Candled into a tree and broken and disarticulated his back.

   • 2022, Chris Pratt, Four Brothers in the Pacific War:

     Some hit the rocky outcrops
     Some fell into the sea
     Some even 'Roman Candled'
     (A parachutist I would never be)

• parachuting
• parachute

• skydiver

Probably borrowed. Equivalent to parachute +‎ -ist.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpaː.raː.ʃyˈtɪst/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧chu‧tist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

parachutist m (plural parachutisten, diminutive parachutistje n, feminine parachutiste)

1. parachutist