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Definition of Air raid
1. Noun. An attack by armed planes on a surface target.
Definition of Air raid
1. Noun. An attack on a ground target by military aircraft, especially when dropping bombs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Air Raid
Literary usage of Air raid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The First World War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à by Charles à Court Repington (1920)
"... to the battlefield—A cage of German prisoners—Return to Paris—A German air
raid on Paris- General Wagstaff on St. Mihiel—A conversation with Clemenceau— ..."
2. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"390; in Asia Minor campaign, 403: Russian from beginning of war. 42(1; British
losses in transport, 472 ; Rumanian losses, 524. CATTARO, air raid, 459. ..."
3. Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War by Louis Raemaekers (1919)
"ATEST police reports show that the casualties so far reported in to-day's air
raid are: Killed Injured Men 55 Men 223 Women 16 Women 122 Children 26 ..."
4. Challenging Horizons: Qantas 1939-1954 by John Gunn (1987)
"... The first Japanese air raid on Darwin on 19 February 1942. The Empire flying
boat Camilla floats unscathed at her moorings while the Australian coastal ..."
5. Aircraft in the Great War: A Record and Study by Claude Grahame-White, Harry Harper (1915)
"... IV OUR FIRST air raid " The importance of this incident lies in the fact that
it shows that, in the event of further bombs being dropped into Antwerp or ..."
6. 88 Bis and V. I. H.: Letters from Two Hospitals by Katharine Foote (1919)
"The last air-raid makes one feel that the time for reprisals has come. The Hun
is beaten, and he knows it, but he means to give us some very bad moments in ..."
7. The Literary Digest History of the World War: Compiled from Original and (1919)
"Paris, for the first time in several months, was subjected to a German air-raid
on January 30, when a number of German machines dropt fourteen tons of bombs ..."
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