missile
pronunciation
How to pronounce missile in British English:
UK [ˈmɪsaɪl]
How to pronounce missile in American English:
US [ˈmɪsl]
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- Noun:
- rocket carrying passengers or instruments or a warhead
- a weapon that is thrown or projected
Word Origin
- missile (n.)
- "thing thrown or discharged as a weapon," is 1650s, from missile (adj.), 1610s, "capable of being thrown," chiefly in phrase missile weapon, from French missile and directly from Latin missilis "that may be thrown or hurled" (also, in plural, as a noun, "weapons that can be thrown, darts, javelins"), from missus "a throwing, hurling," past participle of mittere "to send" (see mission). Sense of "self-propelled rocket or bomb" is first recorded 1738; the modern remote guidance projectile so called from 1945.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Despite all this , missile defences can be effective .
- 2. Missile defences are another irritant .
- 3. Light missile carrier goliath made in germany .
- 4. A missile could threaten a whole city .
- 5. Obviously a satellite is not a missile .