1 [notbeforenoun] (of a plane or passengers) in the air:
Do not leave your seat until the plane is airborne.
2 [onlybeforenoun] carried through the air:
airborne seeds / viruses
compareWATER-BORNE
3 [onlybeforenoun] (of soldiers) trained to jump out of aircraft onto enemy land in order to fight:
an airborne division
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for airborne is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is airborne a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, airborne is tagged as adjective.
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