Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An enlisted rank in the U.S. Air Force that is above airman basic and below airman first class.
- n. A person who holds this rank.
- n. An enlisted person in the U.S. Navy working with aircraft.
- n. An aviator.
Wiktionary
- n. A pilot of an aircraft
- n. A member of an air force
- n. A rank in the U.S. Air Force above Airman Basic and below Airman First Class.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A man who ascends or flies in an aircraft; an aviator; an airplane pilot.
- n. an enlisted man in the air force; there are several grades.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who operates an aircraft
Etymologies
- air + -man (Wiktionary)
Examples
“At one point during that period, there was a slight panic in the USAF ranks, at any rate — the first term airman re-enlistment rate for Arabic linguists for one entire year was 0%.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Arabic Language Expertise in the Military
“We would like to include the poem sent to us by Sarah Parker McAdams, the sister of John R. Parker, the American airman from the “Queen Bee” aircraft of VPB-117 who was executed at Taipei on June 19, 1945.”
“Intelligence Agency (DIA), but the presence of the photo in the file seems to indicate that the airman is Shelton.”
“The face of the airman is blacked out by the U.S. Defense”
“I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes seem so unnatural (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and an indiscriminate attack on civilians.”
“On another a man in airmans costume is fighting barehanded against a rat somewhat larger than a donkey.”
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“TPCMS Director reads a note from Charles Parker, brother of slain airman.”
“The airman is the first U.S. fatality in Iraq this month.”
“The airman was the pilot of the Air Force F-16 fighter jet that crashed northwest of Baghdad.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘airman’.
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SEDE - people and ranks
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
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Anagrams of Famous Brands
Armani = airman, Pepsi = pipes, Advil = valid, etc.
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SEDE - air combat
AWACS, automatic flight ..., combined IFF, Eurofighter, instrument flight, jet, vertical take-off..., g-tolerance, aeromedical evacu..., decibel, eject, fly-by-wire contr... and 82 more...
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Unneutered
These politically incorrect words for people contain the element 'man', 'son', or 'boy'.
parson, person, layman, businessman, clergyman, chairman, cameraman, craftsman, craftsmanship, fireman, fisherman, gunman and 50 more...
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Man
Everything that contains a man in it
taxman, salesman, common man, spaceman, neolithic man, straw man, seaman, fireman, spiderman, overman, old man, con man and 373 more...
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Why aren't these on Wordie yet?
Its a rhetorical question.
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