air cushion

Questions about air cushion

What does air cushion mean?

air cushion means "the trapped air that supports a hovercraft a short distance above the water or ground". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for air cushion?

Close synonyms include air spring, inflatable cushion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is air cushion a common word?

air cushion is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.