bomber
French, noun/bɔ̃.be/
bomber is spelled B-O-M-B-E-R (6 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 36,757th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bomber is a French masculine noun meaning “bomber jacket” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Blouson militaire (à usage civil répandu)”.
What does bomber mean in English?
verb
- 1
to bulge
- 2
to cower, to bend
- 3
colloquialto move, walk quickly
- 4
colloquialto spray paint (especially of taggers or graffiti artists)
noun
- 1
masculinebomber jacket
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Rendre convexe, cintrer comme une bombe, arrondir. 2. Devenir convexe. 3. Espérer en vain ; se gratter. 4. Taguer, faire un graffiti, peindre avec une bombe aérosol de peinture.
verb: 1. Être rapide, faire vite, aller vite. → voir foncer 2. Frapper, tabasser. 3. Faire la fête, se débaucher, faire une bombe.
noun: 1. Blouson militaire (à usage civil répandu).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bomber
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bombant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bombé participle past
- bombe first-person indicative present
- bombes indicative present second-person
- bombons first-person indicative plural
- bombez indicative plural present
- bombent indicative plural present
- bombais first-person imperfect indicative
- bombait imperfect indicative singular
- bombions first-person imperfect indicative
- bombiez imperfect indicative plural
- bombaient imperfect indicative plural
- bombai first-person historic indicative
- bombas historic indicative past
- bomba historic indicative past
- bombâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bomber?
- /bɔ̃.be/
- /bɔ̃.bœʁ/
- \bɔ̃.be\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bomber
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bomber in French?
bomber appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).