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COMBAT PILOT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Airplane pilot who fights in an action between two military forces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("combat pilot" is a kind of...):

airplane pilot; pilot (someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight)

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 "combat pilot"):

fighter pilot (a military or naval pilot of fighter planes)

strafer (a combat pilot who strafes the enemy)

Instance hyponyms:

Eddie Rickenbacker; Edward Vernon Rickenbacker; Rickenbacker (the most decorated United States combat pilot in World War I (1890-1973))

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