air-force

Language: en

🇺🇸 /ˈɛrfɔrs/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    The branch of a country's armed forces responsible for aerial warfare, including the operation of military aircraft, defense of airspace, and strategic bombing.; The collective military aircraft and personnel of a nation used for air operations.

🔗 Details

Word forms

countable Plural: air forces

Collocations

air force baseAir Force Onejoin the air forceair force officerair force pilotair force uniform

Derivatives

airmanaircraft

Synonyms

air armair serviceaerial force

Antonyms

ground forcenaval force

Commonly confused

airforce
EN: 'airforce' as one word is non-standard; the correct form is 'air force' (two words) or 'air-force' as a compound adjective.
aircraft
EN: 'aircraft' refers to the vehicles (planes, helicopters); 'air force' refers to the military organization.

Spelling tips

EN: The standard noun form is 'air force' (two separate words, no hyphen). Use the hyphenated form 'air-force' only as a compound adjective before a noun (e.g., 'air-force base').

💬 Examples

  1. He joined the air-force right after graduating from high school.

  2. The country's air-force was significantly weakened after the conflict.