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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French bombarder (“a stone throwing engine”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?m.b??d??/, enPR: bäm'b?r-d?r?
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?m.b??d??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Noun

bombardier (plural bombardiers)

1. (Canada, US) A bomber crew member who sights and releases bombs.
2. (Canada, Britain) A non-commissioned officer rank in artillery, equivalent to corporal. Abbreviated Bdr.
   • Wikipedia: Bombardier (Bdr) and Lance Bombardier (LBdr or L/Bdr) are British Army ranks used in the Royal Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery instead of (respectively) Corporal and Lance Corporal. In the Canadian Forces, the Artillery Branch uses the ranks of Master Bombardier and Bombardier instead of Master Corporal and Corporal.
3. An artilleryman; a gunner.
4. (entomology) A bombardier beetle.

Derived terms

• lance bombardier
• master bombardier
• bombardier beetle

Related terms

• bombard
• bomb
• bomber

Translations

References

• “bombardier” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

French

Etymology

From bombarder +? -ier

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??.ba?.dje/

Noun

bombardier m (plural bombardiers)

1. (archaic) artilleryman, bombardier
2. (aircraft) bomber

Further reading

• “bombardier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Verb

bombardier

1. singular imperative of bombardieren

Romanian

Etymology

From French bombardier

Noun

bombardier n (plural bombardiere)

1. bomber

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• Verb:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?m?b??d/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?b?m?b??d/, /b?m?b??d/
• Noun:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?m?b??d/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?b?m?b??d/

Etymology 1

From Middle French bombarde (“a bombard, mortar, catapult"; also "a bassoon-like musical instrument”), from Latin bombus (“buzzing; booming”).

Noun

bombard (plural bombards)

1. a medieval primitive cannon, used chiefly in sieges for throwing heavy stone balls.

   • They planted in divers places twelve great bombards, wherewith they threw huge stones into the air, which, falling down into the city, might break down the houses.

2. (obsolete) a bassoon-like medieval instrument
3. (obsolete) a large liquor container made of leather, in the form of a jug or a bottle.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2

     […] yond same black cloud, yond huge one, / looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor.

4. (poetic, rare) A bombardment.

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5. (music) A bombardon.

Translations

Etymology 2

From French bombarder, from Middle French bombarde (“a bombard”)

Verb

bombard (third-person singular simple present bombards, present participle bombarding, simple past and past participle bombarded)

1. To continuously attack something with bombs, artillery shells or other missiles or projectiles.

2. (figuratively) To attack something or someone by directing objects at them.
3. (figuratively) To continuously send or direct (at someone)

4. (physics) To direct at a substance an intense stream of high-energy particles, usually sub-atomic or made of at most a few atoms.

Synonyms

• bomb

Translations

Derived terms