Aerial attack

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Equipment was possibly used to trigger air raid sirens during the Second World War. ▪ One afternoon, after an air raid , one of the students asked me if I knew why the planes came. ▪ Suddenly the sharp, heavy squall of the air ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. An attack on a surface target by aircraft.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an attack by armed planes on a surface target [syn: air attack ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Air Raid is the second album by the improvisational collective Air featuring Henry Threadgill , Steve McCall , and Fred Hopkins performing four of Threadgill's compositions. The album was originally released on the Japanese Why Not label in 1976 and later ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1914, from air (n.1) + raid (n.); originally in reference to British attacks Sept. 22, 1914, on Zeppelin bases at Cologne and Düsseldorf in World War I. The German word is Fliegerangriff "aviator-attack," and if Old English had survived into the 20th century ...