English Explanatory Dictionary

airplane

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.

Pronunciation

ârʹplān' /ˈɛəˌpleɪ̯n/ /ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/ en-us-airplane.ogg

Word forms

airplane airplanes aeroplane aëroplane plane airplaning airplaned

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)bor. Latin āēr Old French airbor. Middle English aire English air ▲ Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr) Ancient Greek πλανάω (planáō) Ancient Greek πλάνος (plános) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ερόπλᾰνος (āeróplănos)der. French aéroplanebor. English aeroplaneclip. English plane English airplane From air + plane as an alteration of aeroplane.

Synonyms

choo-choo train

Related words

aircraft flycraft glider helicopter

Derived words

airplane cloth airplane ears airplaneful airplanelike airplane mode airplanist here comes the airplane hydro-airplane paper airplane rubber band airplane

Translations

Abkhaz: аероплан Afrikaans: vliegtuig Akan: adupire Akan: wiemhyɛn Alabama: piɬɬawakáyka Albanian: aeroplan Albanian: balonë Albanian: avion Aleut: igax̂tax̂ Amharic: አይሮፕላን Amis: hikoki Arabic: طَائِرَة Arabic: طَيَّارَة Arabic: طيارة Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܛܲܝܵܣܬܵܐ Armenian: օդանավ Armenian: ինքնաթիռ Armenian: աերոպլան Assamese: উৰাজাহাজ Assamese: আকাশীযান Assamese: এৰ’প্লে’ন Asturian: avión Atayal: hikoki' Aymara: latajamach'iwa Azerbaijani: təyyarə Azerbaijani: uçaq Bambara: sannakurun Bashkir: самолёт Basque: hegazkin Belarusian: самалёт Belarusian: аэрапла́н Bengali: খপোত Bengali: উড়োজাহাজ Bengali: বিমান Bengali: আকাশযান Central Bikol: eroplano Bole: jirginsama Breton: karr-nij Breton: nijerez Bulgarian: самоле́т Bulgarian: авио́н Bulgarian: аеропла́н Bunun: kusbabai Burmese: လေယာဉ်ပျံ Catalan: avió Cebuano: eroplano Chechen: кема Chechen: хӏаваан кема Cherokee: ᏥᏳ ᎦᏃᎯᎵᏙᎯ Cheyenne: ame'hahtȯtse Chichewa: ndege Chickasaw: piini' wakaa' Chinese Cantonese: 飛機 /飞机 Chinese: фиҗи Chinese: фынчуан Chinese: 飛機 /飞机 Chinese: 飛行機 /飞行机 Chinese: 飛船 /飞船 Eastern Min Chinese: 飛機 /飞机 Eastern Min Chinese: 飛船 /飞船 Gan Chinese: 飛機 /飞机 Hakka Chinese: 飛行機 /飞行机 Hakka Chinese: 飛機 /飞机 Jin Chinese: 飛機 /飞机
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