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語源

Partly borrowed from Italian bombardiere, from bombarda + -iere, and partly from Middle French bombardier, from bombard + -ier. By surface analysis, bombard +‎ -ier.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌbɑm.bɚˈdɪɚ/, enPR: bäm'bər-dērʹ
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌbɒm.bəˈdɪə/
• 韻: -ɪə(ɹ)

名詞

bombardier (plural bombardiers)

1. (Canada, US) A bomber crew member who sights and releases bombs.
   • 1990, Charles W McArthur, Operations Analysis in the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force in World War II, American Mathematical Society, →ISBN, page 142:

     The bombardier then checked the gyroscopic stabilization of the bombsight and clutched in the electrical motor.

2. (Canada, British) A non-commissioned officer rank in artillery, equivalent to corporal. Abbreviated Bdr.
   • Wikipedia: Bombardier (Bdr) and Lance Bombardier (LBdr or L/Bdr) are British Army ranks used in the Royal Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery instead of (respectively) Corporal and Lance Corporal. In the Canadian Forces, the Artillery Branch uses the ranks of Master Bombardier and Bombardier instead of Master Corporal and Corporal.
3. An artilleryman; a gunner.
   • 1852, R. H. Major, “Notes Upon Russia”, in Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society‎, translation of original by Sigismund von Herberstein, page 98:

     […] the officer to whom the command was deputed, to the amusement of a German bombardier, ordered one of the largest cannons to be placed under the gate of a fortress […]

   • 1982, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, translated by Patrick Miles and Harvey Pitcher, Early Stories, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

     He has known for ages why a sturdy bombardier rides alongside the officer at the head of each battery, and why he is given a special name.

   • 2001, Martin Garrett, Venice‎, →ISBN, page 37:

     In 1687, with notorious effects, Morosini attacked Athens: the Turks were using the Parthenon as a powder-store, and the German bombardiers blew it up.

4. (entomology) A bombardier beetle.

派生語

• lance bombardier
• master bombardier
• bombardier beetle

関連する語

• bombard
• bomb
• bomber

参照

• Katherine Barber, editor (1998), “bombardier”, in The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.