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Luftwaffe

[ looft-vahf-uh ]

noun

, German.
  1. air force.


Luftwaffe

/ ˈlʊftvafə /

noun

  1. the German Air Force
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Luftwaffe

  1. The German air force in World War II . ( See blitzkrieg and Battle of Britain .)
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Word History and Origins

Origin of Luftwaffe1

C20: German, literally: air weapon
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Example Sentences

It was a cause of acute embarrassment for Berlin given that a brigadier general in the Luftwaffe appeared to allow spies into the secure call by dialling in on an insecure line.

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This kind of siren, so strongly associated in Britain with World War Two, is actually more than a century old, and has been used for all kinds of emergencies - not just Luftwaffe bombing raids.

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The mosquitos, as I remember, were as vicious as the Luftwaffe.

But whoever it was that picked up an insecure line in a Singapore hotel room late one February night, this Luftwaffe leak has been damaging for Germany.

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The man was attempting to enter an Airbus A400M transport aircraft owned by the German air force, the Luftwaffe.

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