bombardier
noun/ˌbɒmbəˈdɪə(r)/
/ˌbɑːmbərˈdɪr/
- the person on a military plane in the US air force who is responsible for aiming and dropping bombsTopics War and conflictc2
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- a member of a low rank in the Royal Artillery (= a part of the British army that uses large guns)
Word Originmid 16th cent. (denoting a soldier in charge of a bombard, an early form of cannon): from French, from Old French bombarde ‘cannon’, probably based on Latin bombus ‘booming, humming’, from Greek bombos, of imitative origin.
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