fighter aircraft

Questions about fighter aircraft

What does fighter aircraft mean?

fighter aircraft means "a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air".

What is another word for fighter aircraft?

Close synonyms include fighter, attack aircraft. 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 fighter aircraft a common word?

fighter aircraft 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.