noun
Meaning 1
An airfield.
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Standard Lemma guide
aerodrome
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noun
Meaning 2
An airfield.
Any area of land or water used for aircraft operation, regardless of facilities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada
Qualifier: term of art
Topics: law
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noun
Meaning 3
An airfield.
An airfield used for managed aircraft operation, either military or civilian, having such facilities as are necessary for operation.
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noun
Meaning 4
An airfield.
An airfield equipped with air traffic control facilities and hangars as well as accommodation for passengers and cargo; an airport.
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Usage: UK
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noun
Meaning 5
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
- 1908 June 8, Nikola Tesla, Little Aeroplane Progress: So Says Nikola Tesla-But He Is Working on One of His Own, letter to The New York Times, Page 6, The Langley and Maxim aerodromes, which did not soar, were in my opinion better pieces of mechanism than their very latest imitations.
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noun
Meaning 6
an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: airport, airdrome, drome
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: airfield, landing field, flying field, field
Narrower terms: heliport, Kennedy, Kennedy Interrnational, Kennedy International Airport
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2ews- Proto-Indo-European *h2ewsér Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr) Ancient Greek ἀέρος (aéros)der. English aero- Proto-Indo-European *drem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Hellenic *-os Ancient Greek -ος (-os) Ancient Greek δρόμος (drómos)der. English -drome English aerodrome * (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.
Across languages
Translations
85 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: aerodrom — airfield
- Arabic: مَهْبِط (mahbiṭ) — airfield
- Arabic: مَدْرَج (madraj) — airfield
- Armenian: աերոդրոմ (aerodrom) — airfield
- Azerbaijani: aerodrom — airfield
- Belarusian: аэрадро́м (aeradróm) — airfield
- Bengali: বিমানঘাঁটি (bimanghãṭi) — airfield
- Bengali: বিমানবন্দর (bimanbondor) — airfield
- Bulgarian: аеродру́м (aerodrúm) — airfield
- Bulgarian: лети́ще (letíšte) — airfield
- Burmese: လေယာဉ်ကွင်း (leyanykwang:) — airfield
- Catalan: aeròdrom — airfield
- Chinese Cantonese: 機場 /机场 (gei1 coeng4) — airfield
- Chinese Cantonese: 飛機場 /飞机场 (fei1 gei1 coeng4) — airfield
- Chinese Mandarin: 飛機場 /飞机场 (fēijīchǎng) — airfield
- Chinese Mandarin: 機場 /机场 (jīchǎng) — airfield
- Czech: letiště — airfield
- Danish: flyveplads — airfield
- Dutch: aerodroom — airfield
- Dutch: vliegveld — airfield
- Estonian: lennuväli — airfield
- Estonian: aerodroom — airfield
- Finnish: lentopaikka — airfield
- Finnish: lentokenttä — airfield
- French: aérodrome — airfield
- Galician: aeródromo — airfield
- Georgian: აეროდრომი (aerodromi) — airfield
- German: Flugplatz — airfield
- German: Aerodrom — airfield
- Greek: αεροδρόμιο (aerodrómio) — airfield
- Hindi: हवाई मैदान (havāī maidān) — airfield
- Hindi: हवाई अड्डा (havāī aḍḍā) — airfield
- Hindi: हवाई क्षेत्र (havāī kṣetra) — airfield
- Hungarian: repülőtér — airfield
- Icelandic: flugvöllur — airfield
- Indonesian: lapangan terbang — airfield
- Indonesian: aerodrom — airfield
- Irish: aeradróm — airfield
- Italian: aerodromo — airfield
- Japanese: 飛行場 (hikōjō) — airfield
- Kazakh: аэродром (aérodrom) — airfield
- Khmer: អាកាសយានដ្ឋាន (ʼaakaasaʼyiənaʼthaan) — airfield
- Korean: 비행장 (bihaengjang) — airfield
- Northern Kurdish: balafirgeh — airfield
- Northern Kurdish: firokgeh — airfield
- Kyrgyz: аэродром (aerodrom) — airfield
- Latvian: aerodroms — airfield
- Lithuanian: aerodromas — airfield
- Macedonian: леталиште (letalište) — airfield
- Macedonian: аеродро́м (aerodróm) — airfield
- Malay: padang terbang — airfield
- Malay: lapangan terbang — airfield
- Mongolian: аэродром (aerodrom) — airfield
- Norwegian Bokmål: flyplass — airfield
- Pashto: هوايي ډګر (hawāyi ḍëgër) — airfield
- Iranian Persian: پَرْوازْگاه (parvâzgâh) — airfield
- Iranian Persian: فُرودْگاه (forudgâh) — airfield
- Polish: lotnisko — airfield
- Polish: aerodrom — airfield
- Portuguese: aeródromo — airfield
- Romanian: aerodrom — airfield
- Russian: аэродро́м (aerodróm) — airfield
- Serbo-Croatian: аеро̀дром — airfield
- Serbo-Croatian: aeròdrom — airfield
- Slovak: letisko — airfield
- Slovene: letališče — airfield
- Spanish: aeródromo — airfield
- Swedish: flygplats — airfield
- Tajik: аэродром (aerodrom) — airfield
- Tajik: фурудгоҳ (furudgoh) — airfield
- Tajik: парвозгоҳ (parvozgoh) — airfield
- Tatar: аэродром (aʹrodrom) — airfield
- Thai: สนามบิน (sà-nǎam-bin) — airfield
- Turkish: aerodrom — airfield
- Turkmen: aerodrom — airfield
- Ukrainian: аеродро́м (aerodróm) — airfield
- Urdu: ہَوائی مَیدان (havāī maidān) — airfield
- Urdu: طَیران گاہ (tairān gāh) — airfield
- Urdu: فِضائی مُسْتَقَر (fizāī mustaqar) — airfield
- Urdu: ہَوائی اَڈَّہ (havāī aḍḍa) — airfield
- Uyghur: ئايرودروم (ayrodrom) — airfield
- Uzbek: aerodrom — airfield
- Vietnamese: sân bay — airfield
- Vietnamese: trường bay — airfield
- Yiddish: אַעראָדראָם (aerodrom) — airfield