automatic rifle

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   light machine gun

   Synonymsautomaticmachine rifle

   Broaderautomatic firearmmachine gun

   Narrowerassault rifleBrowning automatic rifle

Questions about automatic rifle

What does automatic rifle mean?

automatic rifle means "light machine gun".

What is another word for automatic rifle?

Close synonyms include automatic, machine rifle. 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 automatic rifle a common word?

automatic rifle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.