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AIRFORCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does airforce mean?
• AIRFORCE (noun)
The noun AIRFORCE has 1 sense:
1. the airborne branch of a country's armed forces
Familiarity information: AIRFORCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The airborne branch of a country's armed forces
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
air force; airforce
Hypernyms ("airforce" is a kind of...):
armed service; military service; service (a force that is a branch of the armed forces)
Meronyms (members of "airforce"):
air unit (a military unit that is part of the airforce)
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 "airforce"):
Air Corps (formerly the airborne division of the United States Army)
RAF; Royal Air Force (the airforce of Great Britain)
German Luftwaffe; Luftwaffe (the German airforce)
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