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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Air Raid is a 1982 shoot 'em up published for the Atari 2600 by Men-A-Vision , the only game released by the company. The cartridge is a blue T-handle design with a picture of flying saucers attacking a futuristic city. It had extremely limited distribution, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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