airforce

Naija

Alternative forms

• troop 0.79 12, counterparts 0.79 8, expatriate 0.78 16, retailers 0.77 12, zookeeper 0.77 5, jeddah 0.76 7, carriers 0.76 8, bombings 0.76 5, ssanu 0.75 12

Etymology

Borrowed from English airforce

Pronunciation

• ɛ́fɔ̂s

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 5
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 11625

The word is used more in written texts than orally.

Noun

airforce: airforce personnel -- Definition in Naija?

1. Egbokhare (frequency:Inf)

   E be airforce  — (He/she is an airforce personnel.)

2. - (frequency:3)

   Airforce dey Enugu here dey patrol.  — (ENU_04_The-South-Eastern-Dilemna_M__11, Airforce is in Enugu here patrolling.)

   Airforce don deploy aircraft plus other air power to begin dey look for di girls dem today, dem go use new strategy.  — (bbc__13425, __no translation__)

Synonyms

• troop 0.79 12, counterparts 0.79 8, expatriate 0.78 16, retailers 0.77 12, zookeeper 0.77 5, jeddah 0.76 7, carriers 0.76 8, bombings 0.76 5, ssanu 0.75 12

Antonyms

• troop 0.79 12, counterparts 0.79 8, expatriate 0.78 16, retailers 0.77 12, zookeeper 0.77 5, jeddah 0.76 7, carriers 0.76 8, bombings 0.76 5, ssanu 0.75 12

Translations

• English: airforce personnel