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ABN

ABN is the abbreviation of airborne.

ABN is the initialism of Australian business number.

ABN is the initialism of assumed business name.

Meaning of airborne

Adjective

airborne (not comparable)

  1. In or carried by the air.
    • Airborne pollen can aggravate allergies.
  2. In flight.
    • There goes the siren that warns of the air raid / Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak / Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne / Got to get up for the coming attack.1984, Steve Harris, “Aces High”, in Powerslave, performed by Iron Maiden
  3. Fitted to an aircraft.
    • airborne radar
  4. Transported by air in an aircraft.
    • airborne troops

See all 5 meanings of airborne

Forms of ABN

pluralABNs

Questions about ABN

What is ABN the abbreviation of?
ABN is the abbreviation of airborne.

Words near ABN in the dictionary

  1. abmigration
  2. abmigrations
  3. abmodalities
  4. abmodality
  5. ABMs
  6. ABN
  7. Abnaki
  8. Abnakis
  9. abnegate
  10. abnegated
  11. abnegates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ABN (page history and authors); airborne (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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