antiaircraft

[an-tee-air-kraft, -krahft, an-tahy-]

adjective

1. designed for or used in defense against enemy aircraft.

noun

1. artillery used against enemy aircraft.

2. a military organization operating and servicing antiaircraft artillery.

3. shellfire from antiaircraft artillery.

   The planes flew through heavy antiaircraft.

Word History and Origins

Origin of antiaircraft¹

First recorded in 1910–15; anti- + aircraft

Example Sentences

At the very least, they had to take out the antiaircraft weapons that had hit the American plane.

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But antiaircraft batteries have limited range and missiles are expensive.

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After Prigozhin’s death, Moscow dispatched new personnel to guard mines and man the antiaircraft weapons that protected them, according to local activists and residents.

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Fonda’s most noteworthy and reviled political moment occurred the same year, when she was photographed by the North Vietnamese sitting atop an antiaircraft gun.

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The Israeli military said it targeted Syrian antiaircraft batteries, missile depots, manufacturing facilities, drones, helicopters, fighter jets, tanks, hangars, radars and 15 naval vessels.

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