different between bombardier vs bombarder

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

Etymology

bombard +? -er

Noun

bombarder (plural bombarders)

1. One who bombards.

Catalan

Noun

bombarder m (plural bombarders)

1. bomber

French

Etymology

From bombarde +? -er, from Middle French bombarde, ultimately from Latin bombus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??.ba?.de/

Verb

bombarder

1. to shell, blitz

Conjugation

Derived terms

• bombardement
• bombardier

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

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Verb

bombarder

1. (Jersey) to bombard

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

bombarder

1. imperative of bombardere

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bomb?rde?r/
• Hyphenation: bom?bar?der

Noun

bombàrd?r m (Cyrillic spelling ???????????)

1. bomber (bombing plane)

Declension