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BOMBER

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Dictionary entry overview: What does bomber mean?

• BOMBER (noun)
The noun BOMBER has 3 senses:

1. a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight
2. a person who plants bombs
3. a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

Familiarity information: BOMBER used as a noun is uncommon.

Dictionary entry details

• BOMBER (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A military aircraft that drops bombs during flight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

aeroplane; airplane; plane (an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets)

military plane; warplane (an aircraft designed and used for combat)

Meronyms (parts of "bomber"):

bomb rack (a device on an aircraft for carrying bombs)

cannon (heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane)

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 "bomber"):

dive bomber (a bomber that releases its bombs during a steep dive toward the target)

stealth bomber (a bomber that is difficult to detect by radar)

Instance hyponyms:

B-52 (United States military aircraft; B- stands for bomber)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

A person who plants bombs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Sense 3

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Meaning:

A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

zep; submarine sandwich; sub; poor boy; Italian sandwich; hoagy; hoagie; Cuban sandwich; grinder; hero sandwich; submarine; torpedo; wedge; bomber; hero

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

sandwich (two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them)

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