"air raid" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: air raids [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} air raid (plural air raids)
  1. An attack on a surface target by aircraft. Translations (attack): паве́траны налёт (pavjétrany naljót) [masculine] (Belarusian), авіяналёт (avijanaljót) [masculine] (Belarusian), авіяўда́р (avijaŭdár) [masculine] (Belarusian), 空袭 (kōngxí) (Chinese Mandarin), 轰炸 (hōngzhà) (Chinese Mandarin), nálet [masculine] (Czech), luftangreb [neuter] (Danish), luchtaanval [masculine] (Dutch), ilmahyökkäys (Finnish), raid aérien [masculine] (French), Luftangriff [masculine] (German), Luftschlag [masculine] (German), légitámadás (Hungarian), aer-ruathar [masculine] (Irish), incursione aerea [feminine] (Italian), 空襲 (kūshū) (alt: うしゅう) (Japanese), 공습 (gongseup) (alt: 空襲) (Korean), luftangrep [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), luftangrep [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), nalot [masculine] (Polish), atak powietrzny [masculine] (Polish), raid aerian [neuter] (Romanian), возду́шный налёт (vozdúšnyj naljót) [masculine] (Russian), авианалёт (avianaljót) [masculine] (Russian), бомбёжка (bombjóžka) [feminine] (Russian), авиауда́р (aviaudár) [masculine] (Russian), luftangrepp [neuter] (Swedish), hava saldırısı (Turkish), пові́тряний налі́т (povítrjanyj nalít) [masculine] (Ukrainian), авіауда́р (aviaudár) [masculine] (Ukrainian), авіаналі́т (avianalít) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-air_raid-en-noun-ZYCVFLbZ Disambiguation of 'attack': 100 0
  2. (American football) A passing-heavy offensive scheme based on a shotgun formation with four wide receivers and a single running back. Categories (topical): Football (American) Derived forms: air raiding, air-raid shelter, air raid siren Related terms: air strike
    Sense id: en-air_raid-en-noun-eRLz7KJw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 99 Topics: American-football, ball-games, football, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.