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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
airman
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
young
▪ I took with me a very young airman from the engineering wing and I understood that it was his first flight.
▪ But flying accidents were to take the lives of young airmen beyond that date.
▪ It is understood that a few days before his death the young airman shot down a Dornier bomber.
▪ Once, we carried what we felt was the war's most valuable cargo - we had about 1,600 young airmen on board.
▪ One night during night flying a young airman was killed when he walked into a propeller.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Three airmen were killed during the battle.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But flying accidents were to take the lives of young airmen beyond that date.
▪ Even the luggage racks contained their quota of sailors, soldiers, or airmen.
▪ Read in studio A new theory has emerged tonight about the possible cause of the Hercules crash in which nine airmen died.
▪ The court was told the airman had drunk seventeen pints of beer.
▪ This is not to say that our soldiers, sailors and airmen have not comported themselves bravely when asked to do so.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Airman

Airman \Air"man\, n.

  1. A man who ascends or flies in an aircraft; an aviator; an airplane pilot.

  2. an enlisted man in the air force; there are several grades.

Wiktionary
airman

n. 1 A pilot of an aircraft 2 A member of an air force 3 A rank in the U.S. Air Force above Airman Basic and below Airman First Class.

WordNet
airman

n. someone who operates an aircraft [syn: aviator, aeronaut, flier, flyer]

Wikipedia
Airman

An airman is a member of the air component of a nation's armed service. In the United States Air Force, it can also refer to a specific enlisted rank. More informally, it can refer to any member of an air force, or to any pilot, aviator, or aircrewman, military or civilian, male or female. The equivalent in the British Royal Air Force and some other Commonwealth countries is aircraftman/woman.

In civilian aviation usage, the term airman is analogous to the term sailor in nautical usage. ( U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard members are almost all sailors, even on naval and Coast Guard shore bases, but the subset of these who actually serve at sea in ships and boats are also "seamen". Further, people in these services who are involved in flying are also "airmen".) In the American Federal Aviation Administration usage, an airman is any holder of an airman's certificate, male or female. This certificate is issued to those who qualify for it by the Federal Aviation Administration Airmen Certification Branch.

Airman (comics)

Airman (originally Air Man) is a fictional, comic-book superhero first published by Centaur Publications during the late 1930s to 1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. He first appeared in Keen Detective Funnies #23 (Aug. 1940), in a story by artist Harry Sahle and an unconfirmed writer, generally credited as George Kapitan.

After Centaur Publications went out of business, Airman lapsed into the public domain. In the early 1990s, he was revived by Malibu Comics as a character in the series Protectors, and starred in a namesake, one-shot spin-off.

An Airman story from Keen Detective Funnies #24 has been reprinted in Men of Mystery Comics #63 by AC Comics.

Airman (novel)

Airman, by Eoin Colfer, is a best-selling historical adventure novel set in the 19th century. It was released in the UK, Ireland and USA in January 2008. The novel was shortlisted for the 2009 Carnegie Medal.

Colfer was inspired to write the book after a frightening skydiving experience. He combined this with his childhood observation that the Saltee Islands would make an excellent prison.

Most of the story is completely fictional. The Saltee Islands have been uninhabited since the 19th century, and all of the main characters in the story are fictional.

Airman (disambiguation)

Airman is a term which describes a person serving in an air force or other military aviation service..

Airman may also refer to:

  • For civilian and generic usage, see Aviator
  • Airman Magazine, the official magazine of the U.S. Air Force
  • Airman (comics), a superhero from Centaur Publications
  • Airman (novel), a 2008 novel by Eoin Colfer
  • Airman, alternate name of Irman, a village in Iran
  • Air Man, a Robot Master from the Mega Man series of video games
  • ST Airman, a tugboat

Usage examples of "airman".

He pressed the trigger-button again to test the guns but failed to feel the vibration that every airman feels with his whole body when he discharges his guns.

He got out from under the enemy craft, but the German airman pressed his trigger in time.

By right, as an old friend who had found the airman in the forest, Seryonka was walking solemnly in front of the stretcher, laboriously pulling his feet, encased in the huge felt boots left him by his father, out of the snow and sternly scolding the other white-toothed, grimy-faced, fantastically ragged boys.

That thought, so ordinary for an airman on hectic days, made him shudder now that he was excluded from the life of the airfield.

The airman could not understand how this man could suppress such frightful pain and muster such energy, cheerfulness and vivacity.

At night, when everybody was asleep, he and the famous airman Lyapidevsky found and rescued the Chelyuskin expedition, and with Vodopyanov he landed heavy aircraft on the pack ice at the North Pole, arid with Chkalov opened the unexplored air route to the United States across the Pole.

He remembered the instructor at the air club speak about a Civil War airman who had short legs and had small blocks of wood attached to the pedals of his machine in order to be able to reach them.

Second, he must recover the fighting qualities of an airman and therefore develop himself physically by such gymnastic exercises as a bedridden man is capable of doing.

The artificial feet of an airman unknown to her did not interest her very much.

After that, the airman, with a slightly rolling gait, quickly descended the stairs and without looking back strode down the asphalted embankment past the long hospital building.

With contracted eyebrows, the airman would watch the intricate designs she traced on the floor with her small, pretty feet.

Chief of Staff of the school, an old air wolf who had been an airman as far back as the Civil War, was fond of saying.

He noticed that when he veered his feet delayed, did not achieve that harmonious coordination that an airman acquires like a sort of reflex.

And so I say, we cannot, we have no right to treat you as an ordinary airman, no right, do you understand?

One airman was injured, and two mechanics and several sentries were killed at their posts.