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airplane

Pronunciation: /ˈɛəˌpleɪ̯n/

The English word “airplane” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor.
  2. One that can carry a person or persons.
  3. Any of various small flyable objects that are notionally comparable to such aircraft but aren't powered.
  4. 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

  1. To fly in an aeroplane.
  2. To transport by aeroplane.

Etymology

From air + plane as an alteration of aeroplane.

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