aerodrome
Meanings
Plural: aerodromes
Noun
- an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo
- An airfield:
- Any area of land or water used for aircraft operation, regardless of facilities.
- An airfield:
- An airfield used for managed aircraft operation, either military or civilian, having such facilities as are necessary for operation.
- An airfield:
- An airfield equipped with air traffic control facilities and hangars as well as accommodation for passengers and cargo; an airport.
- An airfield
- A flying machine composed of aeroplanes (“airfoils, aerodynamic surfaces”). An aeroplane (“airplane, aircraft”), particularly one constructed by or according to the design of Samuel Pierpont Langley and Charles M. Manly.
Origin / Etymology
* (aircraft): In the obsolete sense of “flying machine” coined by American aviation pioneer Samuel Langley in 1897, from Ancient Greek ἀεροδρόμος (aerodrómos, “traversing the air”).
* (airfield): In the sense of “airfield”, from aero- + -drome, a suffix formed in analogy with hippodrome (“horse racecourse”), from Ancient Greek.
Scrabble Score: 12
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Words With Friends Score: 13
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