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AIRFORCE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does airforce mean?

• AIRFORCE (noun)
The noun AIRFORCE has 1 sense:

1. the airborne branch of a country's armed forces

Familiarity information: AIRFORCE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• AIRFORCE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The airborne branch of a country's armed forces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

air force; airforce

Hypernyms ("airforce" is a kind of...):

armed service; military service; service (a force that is a branch of the armed forces)

Meronyms (members of "airforce"):

air unit (a military unit that is part of the airforce)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "airforce"):

Air Corps (formerly the airborne division of the United States Army)

RAF; Royal Air Force (the airforce of Great Britain)

German Luftwaffe; Luftwaffe (the German airforce)

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