air raid

See also: air-raid

English

Noun

air raid (plural air raids)

1. An attack on a surface target by aircraft.
   • 1940 December, “Railways and the War—III”, in Railway Magazine, pages 629–630:

     Air raids on London, which first began on an intensive scale on September 7, occasioned a certain amount of disorganisation to transport services of all kinds.

   • 1946 November and December, “The Why and The Wherefore: Destruction of Locomotive No. 4469, L.N.E.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 391:

     The L.N.E.R. locomotive damaged beyond repair in the air raid on York, on April 29, 1942, was No. 4469, Sir Ralph Wedgewood, a class "A 4" Pacific.

   • 1984, Steve Harris, "Aces High", Iron Maiden, Powerslave.

     There goes the siren that warns of the air raid / Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak / Out for the scramble we've got to get airborne / Got to get up for the coming attack.

2. (American football) A passing-heavy offensive scheme based on a shotgun formation with four wide receivers and a single running back.

Derived terms

• air raiding
• air-raid shelter
• air raid siren

Translations

attack

• Belarusian: паве́траны налёт m (pavjétrany naljót), авіяналёт m (avijanaljót), авіяўда́р m (avijaŭdár)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 空袭 (zh) (kōngxí), 轰炸 (zh) (hōngzhà)

• Czech: nálet (cs) m
• Danish: luftangreb n
• Dutch: luchtaanval (nl) m
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• Finnish: ilmahyökkäys (fi)
• French: raid aérien m
• German: Luftangriff (de) m, Luftschlag (de) m
• Greek: αεροπορική επιδρομή f (aeroporikí epidromí)
• Hungarian: légitámadás (hu)
• Irish: aer-ruathar m
• Italian: incursione aerea f
• Japanese: 空襲 (ja) (うしゅう, kūshū)
• Korean: 공습(空襲) (ko) (gongseup)
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: luftangrep n

  Nynorsk: luftangrep n

• Polish: nalot (pl) m, atak powietrzny m
• Romanian: raid aerian n
• Russian: возду́шный налёт m (vozdúšnyj naljót), авианалёт (ru) m (avianaljót), бомбёжка (ru) f (bombjóžka), авиауда́р (ru) m (aviaudár)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: luftangrepp (sv) n
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: hava saldırısı
• Ukrainian: пові́тряний налі́т m (povítrjanyj nalít), авіауда́р m (aviaudár), авіаналі́т m (avianalít)

See also

• air strike

Further reading

• “air raid”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.