Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun raf

2 senses of raf

Sense 1
Royal Air Force, RAF -- (the airforce of Great Britain)
       => air force, airforce -- (the airborne branch of a country's armed forces)

Sense 2
Red Army Faction, RAF -- (a Marxist and Maoist terrorist organization in Germany; a network of underground guerillas who committed acts of violence in the service of the class struggle; a successor to the Baader-Meinhof Gang; became one of Europe's most feared terrorist groups; disbanded in 1998)
       INSTANCE OF=> terrorist organization, terrorist group, foreign terrorist organization, FTO -- (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)