Tim's uncle was a machine gunner on a helicopter in Vietnam.
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Gunner
//ˈɡʌn.ɚ//
Synonyms for "gunner" (77 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (38)
Related word relations
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3 entriesSynonyms
2 entriescapable of
1 entriesderived
8 entriesform of
1 entrieshas context
10 entriesrelated to
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Translations
29 translations across 15 languages.
Bengali
1 entries- গোলন্দাজ noun (artillery soldier)
Bulgarian
1 entries- артилерист noun (artillery soldier)
Catalan
1 entries- artiller noun (artillery soldier)
Esperanto
1 entries- pafisto noun (someone that operates a gun)
French
1 entries- artilleur noun (artillery soldier)
Hebrew
2 entries- תותחן noun (artillery soldier)
- תותחן noun (someone that operates a gun)
Hungarian
1 entries- tüzér noun (artillery soldier)
Irish
1 entries- gunnadóir noun (artillery soldier)
Italian
1 entries- artigliere noun (artillery soldier)
Japanese
3 entries- 砲兵 noun (artillery soldier)
- 砲手 noun (artillery soldier)
- 銃使い noun (someone that operates a gun)
Macedonian
3 entries- артиле́рец noun (artillery soldier)
- стрелец noun (someone that operates a gun)
- топчија noun (artillery soldier)
Norman
2 entries- artilleu noun (artillery soldier)
- canonnyi noun (artillery soldier)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- طوپجی noun (artillery soldier)
Polish
4 entries- Arsenalczyk noun (a fan of Arsenal)
- Arsenalka noun (a fan of Arsenal)
- Kanonier noun (a fan of Arsenal)
- Kanonierka noun (a fan of Arsenal)
Russian
3 entries- артиллери́ст noun (artillery soldier)
- стрело́к noun (artillery soldier)
- стрело́к noun (someone that operates a gun)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Sami was known around the town as Gunner.
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If I could just get my hands on that gunner!
Source: tatoeba (8667334)
Tom was a machine gunner.
Source: tatoeba (12115104)
Showing 4 of 6 available sentences.
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