Tenerife

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name

An island of the Canary Islands, the largest of the islands. Capital: Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Ellipsis of Tenerife aircrash: The 27 March 1977 Tenerife airport disaster, a ground collision between two fully loaded Boeing 747s operating as KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736 at Los Rodeos Airport on Tenerife Island, destroying both; the crash colloquially known as "Tenerife".

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Tenerife Teneriffe

Borrowed from Spanish Tenerife, from Guanche.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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