anti-aircraft
anti-aircraft adjective: intended to attack aircraft.
Adjective
anti-aircraft (not comparable)
- Intended to attack aircraft.
- Special lamps were provided for working during the blackout, and an anti-aircraft gun, manned by the R.A.O.C., was mounted on the coal depot line.1947 January and February, “Wartime Traffic at Tanfield, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 47
- Truth's ships are clustered above the excavation site. And his infantry has deployed anti-aircraft batteries around the perimeter.2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Miranda Keyes (Justis Bolding), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Crow's Nest
- Synonyms:
- air-defense, air-defence, anti-air, surface-to-air
Noun
anti-aircraft (countable and uncountable, plural anti-aircraft or anti-aircrafts)
- Anti-aircraft artillery.
- I am blacking out—ease the stick forward slightly—the sky is clear again—I turn out over water—reverse turn—there are antiaircraft on the island below—I reverse again—and again.1944 June 3, Charles A. Lindbergh, The Wartime Journals of Charles A. Lindbergh, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1970, page 839
- An anti-aircraft artillery organization.
- Anti-aircraft fire.
anti-aircraft meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Kannada
anti-aircraft in Hindi
- intended to attack aircraft
- जहाज़मार jahāzmār
- anti-aircraft artillery
- जहाज़मार तोप jahāzmār top
anti-aircraft in Tamil
- விமான எதிர்ப்புக்குரிய
anti-aircraft in Kannada
- ವಿಮಾನ ನಾಶಕ, ವಿಮಾನ ವಿಧ್ವಂಸಕ, ವಿಮಾನ ನಿರೋಧಕ
Synonyms of anti-aircraft
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Forms of anti-aircraft
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | antaircraft |
| alternative form | antiaircraft |
| Noun | |
| plural | anti-aircraft |
| plural | anti-aircrafts |
Origin of anti-aircraft
From anti- + aircraft.
Questions about anti-aircraft
- What does anti-aircraft mean?
- Anti-aircraft means intended to attack aircraft.
- What is anti-aircraft in Hindi?
- Anti-aircraft in Hindi is जहाज़मार (jahāzmār), जहाज़मार तोप (jahāzmār top). See Anti-aircraft meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is anti-aircraft?
- Anti-aircraft can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near anti-aircraft in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: anti-aircraft (page history and authors); anti-aircraft (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); anti-aircraft (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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