airborne
airborne adjective: in or carried by the air.
Adjective
airborne (not comparable)
- In or carried by the air.
- Airborne pollen can aggravate allergies.
- A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2018, page 3 (Technology Quarterly)
- 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
- Fitted to an aircraft.
- airborne radar
- Transported by air in an aircraft.
- airborne troops
Noun
airborne (plural airbornes or airborne)
- Military infantry intended to be transported by air and delivered to the battlefield by parachute or helicopter.
airborne meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
airborne in Hindi
- airborne
- वायुजनित vāyujanit
airborne in Tamil
- காற்று வழியே பரவும், வான் வழியாக நடைபெறும்
airborne in Urdu
- باد برداشتہ
airborne in Bengali
- বায়ুবাহিত
More languagesFewer languages
- airborne in Malayalam
- പറന്നുയർന്ന, പറക്കുന്ന, ആകാശത്തു സഞ്ചരിക്കുന്ന, പതേര
- airborne in Kannada
- ವಾಯುಗಾಮಿ
- airborne in Gujarati
- એરબોર્ન
- airborne in Odia
- ବାଯ଼ୁବାହିତ
- airborne in Nepali
- एयरबोर्न
- airborne in Arabic
- في الجو fī al-jaww
- airborne in Indonesian
- lintas udara
Examples of airborne in a sentence
- The plane ran along on the main gear for a short distance and was airborne.
- Spiders rely on silk "draglines" to become airborne and for subsequent transport.
- There are three army groups and one airborne special operations headquarters.
Forms of airborne
| plural | airbornes |
|---|---|
| plural | airborne |
Origin of airborne
Attested since the 1640s; air + -borne
Words formed from airborne
Questions about airborne
- What does airborne mean?
- Airborne means in or carried by the air.
- What is airborne in Hindi?
- Airborne in Hindi is वायुजनित (vāyujanit). See Airborne meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is airborne?
- Airborne can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near airborne in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: airborne (page history and authors); वायुजनित (Hindi) (page history and authors); airborne (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); airborne (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); airborne (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); airborne (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); airborne (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); airborne (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); airborne (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); airborne (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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