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COMBAT PILOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Airplane pilot who fights in an action between two military forces
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("combat pilot" is a kind of...):
airplane pilot; pilot (someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight)
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 "combat pilot"):
fighter pilot (a military or naval pilot of fighter planes)
strafer (a combat pilot who strafes the enemy)
Instance hyponyms:
Eddie Rickenbacker; Edward Vernon Rickenbacker; Rickenbacker (the most decorated United States combat pilot in World War I (1890-1973))
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