airplane
Pronunciation: /ˈɛəˌpleɪ̯n/
The English word “airplane” has 6 meanings listed here.
noun
- A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor.
- One that can carry a person or persons.
- Any of various small flyable objects that are notionally comparable to such aircraft but aren't powered.
- A game to encourage small children to eat, in which the parent or carer pretends that a spoonful of food is an aircraft flying into the child's mouth; the spoonful itself.
verb
Etymology
From air + plane as an alteration of aeroplane.
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