Word.ws English Dictionary

Oerlikon

Oerlikon proper noun: a district of Zurich, Switzerland.

Proper noun

Oerlikon

  1. A district of Zurich, Switzerland.
  2. A manufacturer of anti-aircraft weaponry based in this city.

Noun

Oerlikon (plural Oerlikons)

  1. A 20-millimeter anti-aircraft autocannon designed by the Oerlikon company.
    • When the claxon sounded they immediately stopped what they were doing and uncovered the Oerlikon. Paddy, who was ammunition feeder, stood by while Jock trained the 20mm gun around.2007, Thomas E. Lightburn, The Shield and the Shark, page 173

Forms of Oerlikon

pluralOerlikons

Questions about Oerlikon

What does Oerlikon mean?
Oerlikon means a district of Zurich, Switzerland.
What part of speech is Oerlikon?
Oerlikon can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near Oerlikon in the dictionary

  1. OEO
  2. OEOB
  3. OEOs
  4. OEP
  5. OER
  6. Oerlikon
  7. Oerlikons
  8. oersted
  9. oersteds
  10. oes
  11. OES.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Oerlikon (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Oerlikon.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/oerlikon. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.