Loading page
say it: bahm-bur-DIR
bombardier is a noun meaning "a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a noncommissioned officer in the British artillery
the member of a bomber crew responsible for using the bombsight and releasing the bombs on the target
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bombardier come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.