airman

Other forms of airman

plural

airmans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about airman

What does airman mean?

airman means "someone who operates an aircraft".

How many syllables are in airman?

airman has 2 syllables: air-man. The stress falls on "air". In IPA it is /ˈɛɹmən/.

What is another word for airman?

Close synonyms include aviator, aeronaut, flier, flyer. 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 airman a common word?

airman is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.