military plane

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   an aircraft designed and used for combat

   Synonymswarplane

   Broaderheavier-than-air craftmilitary vehicle

   Narrowerbomberfighterreconnaissance plane

   military

Questions about military plane

What does military plane mean?

military plane means "an aircraft designed and used for combat".

What is another word for military plane?

Close synonyms include warplane. 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 military plane a common word?

military plane 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.