volant

From Middle French volant, present participle of voler (“to fly”), from Latin volāre.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvəʊlənt/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvoʊlənt/

volant (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Having extended wings as if flying.
2. (heraldry) Represented as unsupported in the air.
3. Flying, or able to fly.
   • 1657, Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, Commonly Called, the Morals, Written by the Learned Philosopher, Plutarch, page 525:

     Alexander the Great […] lanced himself in manner of a Star Volant in the Air, leaping out of the East into the West, […]

4. Moving quickly or lightly, as though flying; nimble.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 209:

     he turned to catch through the trees a flitting glimpse of her light dress, her volant attitude, as she sped silently and secretly back to the waiting group on the porch.

• Voltan

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /voˈlant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /buˈlan/

volant (masculine and feminine plural volants)

1. flying

volant m (plural volants)

1. steering wheel
2. (badminton) shuttlecock
3. badminton
4. tassel

• volantí

volant

1. present participle of volar

• “volant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

From French volant (“steering wheel”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈvolant]

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volant m

1. steering wheel

• volant in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• volant in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• volant in Internetová jazyková příručka

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.lɑ̃/

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volant

1. present participle of voler

   Voici un oiseau volant.

   Here's a flying bird.

• cerf-volant
• feuille volante
• renard volant
• tapis volant

volant m (plural volants)

1. steering wheel
2. (technical) flywheel
3. flounce
4. (badminton) shuttlecock, birdie

• au volant
• femme au volant, mort au tournant
• fou du volant
• prendre le volant
• soucoupe volante

• → Czech: volant
• → Danish: volant
• → German: Volant
• → Italian: volant
• → Turkish: volan
• → Vietnamese: vô-lăng

• “volant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• lovant

Unadapted borrowing from French volant.

volant m (invariable)

1. frill, flounce

• volant in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

volant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of volō

• IPA^(key): /vuˈlaŋt/

volant m

1. steering wheel

   Synonym: sters

• IPA^(key): [ˈvolant]

volant m (genitive singular volanta, volantu, nominative plural volanty, genitive plural volantov, declension pattern of dub)

1. steering wheel

• volant in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk