BOMBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bomber mean? 

• BOMBER (noun)
  The noun BOMBER has 3 senses:

1. a military aircraft that drops bombs during flight

2. a person who plants bombs

3. a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

  Familiarity information: BOMBER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOMBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A military aircraft that drops bombs during flight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("bomber" is a kind of...):

aeroplane; airplane; plane (an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets)

military plane; warplane (an aircraft designed and used for combat)

Meronyms (parts of "bomber"):

bomb rack (a device on an aircraft for carrying bombs)

cannon (heavy automatic gun fired from an airplane)

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bomber"):

dive bomber (a bomber that releases its bombs during a steep dive toward the target)

stealth bomber (a bomber that is difficult to detect by radar)

Instance hyponyms:

B-52 (United States military aircraft; B- stands for bomber)

Derivation:

bomb (throw bombs at or attack with bombs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who plants bombs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("bomber" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

bomb (throw bombs at or attack with bombs)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

bomber; Cuban sandwich; grinder; hero; hero sandwich; hoagie; hoagy; Italian sandwich; poor boy; sub; submarine; submarine sandwich; torpedo; wedge; zep

Hypernyms ("bomber" is a kind of...):

sandwich (two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them)

 Context examples 

The Tambor-class submarine U.S.S. Grayback encountered a Japanese Nakajima b5N carrier bomber while returning from its tenth patrol in late February 1944.

(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)

Amateur researcher and systems engineer Yutaka Iwasaki of Kobe, Japan came across military records that showed a Japanese bomber had attacked a U.S. vessel in late February, but the coordinates it gave differed from the Navy's figures for the Grayback by one digit.

(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)