ˈair-borne, a.
Carried through the air (see air- I. 2); (of aircraft) having left the ground; in flight; (of troops) carried by aircraft.
| 1641 Milton Ch. Govt. ii. iii. (1851) 173 Like aire-born Helena in the fable. 1880 Nature No. 532. 232 The theory..that cholera is air-borne. 1909 C. M. Doughty Cliffs 57 We've seaborne, airborne and now subsea fleets. 1920 Flight XII. 48/1 An air-borne letter delivered by hand in Paris for 2s. 6d. 1937 B. H. L. Hart Europe in Arms iii. 30 The most striking features of the Army are its development of tank and air-borne units. 1941 War Fortnightly 20 June 1876/1 It [Crete] was the first occasion on which a major operation had been undertaken by air-borne troops, without the aid of sea-borne or any other troops. 1943 Aeronautics Feb. 48/1 An Airborne Division of the British Army. |