a senior officer of the Royal Air Force and certain other air forces, of equivalent rank to brigadier in the Army
air commodore in American English
noun
Brit
an air force officer of a rank comparable to an army brigadier general
Word origin
[1915–20]This word is first recorded in the period 1915–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: camouflage, collage, conditioning, costar, supernationalism
Examples of 'air commodore' in a sentence
air commodore
Later he was promoted to the rank of air commodore.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
About 26 brigadiers, commodores and air commodores or their equivalent will go in the next two years.