Warplane

noun

noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An aircraft designed for combat.
  2. 2
    an aircraft designed and used for combat wordnet

Synonyms

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military plane

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"The small crowd at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park stood for a moment of silence at 8:15 a.m., the exact moment an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” was dropped from the U.S. warplane Enola Gay."

Etymology

From war + plane.

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