Synonyms for cannoneer
Most common
Definitions
- n. 1
An artillery soldier who maintains and operates (historical) a cannon, or (now) some other piece of heavy artillery.
Luckily, the cannoneer was only mildly injured when his cannon malfunctioned.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- artillerist artilleryman artillerywoman
- Other spellings
- cannonier
Forms
- Plural
- cannoneers → gunners, bombardiers, cannoners…
Example sentences
- gunner If I could just get my hands on that gunner!
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| cannoneer | rising | |
| gunner | rising | |
| bombardier | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- gunner2
- 8 letters
- cannoner
- 10 letters
- bombardier3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (gunner2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- canonnier