air-minded
Americanadjective
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interested in aviation or aeronautics.
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favoring increased use of aircraft.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of air-minded
First recorded in 1925–30
Example Sentences
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Submariners complain that the air-minded high command has virtually shut off funds for submarine construction in order to find money for three new supercarriers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their title-clinching game with the De troit Lions was a fair sample of how the air-minded Rams operate.
From Time Magazine Archive
The air-minded President had strato-clippered the 2,875 miles from Lima to Bolling Field, where waited Franklin Roosevelt and pomp & circumstance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Latin Americans have been air-minded almost from the first days of flight.
From Time Magazine Archive
“They’d better get the Army on the job before those babies get air-minded again!” he told himself, as he winged on into the rising sun.
From Spawn of the Comet by H. Thompson (Harold Thompson) Rich
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