airman

[air-muhn]

noun

plural

airmen 

1. an aviator.

2. U.S. Air Force.,  an enlisted person of one of the three lowest ranks airmanbasic, airman, airmanfirstclass. Amn

3. a member of a military aircrew.

4. (in other countries) an enlisted person in the air force.

airman

/ ˈɛəmən /

noun

1. an aviator, esp a man who serves in his country's air force

Other Word Forms

• airwoman noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of airman¹

1870–75, for an earlier sense; air ¹ + -man, on the model of seaman

Example Sentences

During World War II, the British and U.S. military hid money, maps and tools in Monopoly board games and sent them via fake charities to soldiers and airmen held in German prison camps.

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I flew with them and watched British and American airmen dropping aid from the rear cargo ramps of the planes several thousand feet above the people who needed it.

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I flew with them and watched British and American airmen dropping aid from the rear cargo ramps of the planes thousands of feet above the people who needed it.

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"He came upon these three airmen in flying gear," Kit says.

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They left a sticky mess over the airmen, their instruments and the cockpit's canopy.

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