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Origin of balloon
1570–80; <Upper Italian ballone, equivalent to ball(a) (<Langobardic; see ball1) + -one augmentative suffix; or <Middle French ballon<Upper Italian
OTHER WORDS FROM balloon
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How to use balloon in a sentence
British Dictionary definitions for balloon
balloon
/ (bəˈluːn) /
noun
verb
Derived forms of balloon
ballooning, nounballoonist, nounballoon-like, adjectiveWord Origin for balloon
C16 (in the sense: ball, ball game): from Italian dialect ballone, from balla, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German balla ball 1
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Other Idioms and Phrases with balloon
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