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aircraft

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛə.kɹɑːft/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈɛː.kɹɑːft/
  • rhymes with -ɛəkɹɑːft
  • rhymes with -ɛːkɹɑːft
  • General-American: /ˈɛɚ.kɹæft/
  • General-American: /ˈɛɹ̩.kɹæft/
  • rhymes with -ɛəɹkɹæft
  • rhymes with -ɛːɹkɹæft
  • CMU ARPABET: EH1 R K R AE2 F T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • light aircraft
  • aircraft manufacturer
  • aircraft licence

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: vehicle, craft, vessel

2

noun

Meaning 2

A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift.

One that can carry a person or persons.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: sometimes

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: vehicle, craft, vessel

3

noun

Meaning 3

a vehicle that can fly

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: craft

Narrower terms: bogy, bogie, bogey, cruise missile, heavier-than-air craft, lighter-than-air craft, stealth aircraft

History

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 Proto-Germanic *krafjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *kraftuz Proto-West Germanic *kraftu Old English cræft Middle English craft English craft English -craft English aircraft From air + -craft.

Across languages

Translations

119 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: lugvaartuig — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Albanian: avion — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Albanian: fluturake — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Arabic: طَائِرَة (ṭāʔira) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Armenian: օդանավ (ōdanav) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Bashkir: осҡос (osqos) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Basque: hegazkinen — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Bengali: বিমান (biman) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Bulgarian: самолет (samolet) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Burmese: လေယာဉ်ပျံ (leyanypyam) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Catalan: aeronau — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Chichewa: ndege — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Chinese: 飛行器 /飞行器 (hui-hêng-khì) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Chinese Mandarin: 航空器 (hángkōngqì) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Chinese Mandarin: 飛機 /飞机 (fēijī) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Czech: letadlo — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Danish: luftfartøj — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Dutch: luchtvaartuig — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Dzongkha: གནམ་གྲུ (gnam gru) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Esperanto: aerveturilo — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Estonian: õhusõiduk — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Faroese: flogfar flúgvari — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Finnish: lentokone — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Finnish: ilma-alus — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • French: aéronef — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • French: avion — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • West-Frisian: fleantúch — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • West-Frisian: fleanmasine — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Galician: aeronaves — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Georgian: თვითმფრინავი (tvitmprinavi) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Georgian: საჰაერო ხომალდი (sahaero xomaldi) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Georgian: საფრენი აპარატი (sapreni aṗaraṭi) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • German: Luftfahrzeug — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • German: Flugzeug — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Greek: αεροσκάφος (aeroskáfos) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Hebrew: כְּלִי טַיִס (kli-tayis) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Hindi: विमान (vimān) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Hungarian: légi jármű — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Hungarian: repülőgép — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Hungarian: repülő — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Icelandic: loftfar — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Ido: aviacilo — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Indonesian: pesawat udara — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Interlingua: aeronave — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Interlingua: avion — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Irish: aerárthach — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Italian: aeromobile — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Japanese: 航空機 (kōkūki) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Japanese: 飛行機 (hikōki) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Javanese: ꦥꦭ꧀ꦮꦲꦁꦒꦼꦒꦤ (palwa anggegana) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Kannada: ವಿಮಾನ (vimāna) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Kazakh: әуе көлігі (äue kölıgı) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Korean: 항공기 (hanggonggi) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Latin: aërium vehīculum — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Latvian: lidmašīna — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Latvian: lidaparāts — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Macedonian: летало (letalo) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Malay: pesawat — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Malayalam: ആകാശനൗക (ākāśanauka) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Malayalam: വിമാനം (vimānaṁ) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Maltese: ajruplan — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Marathi: विमान (vimān) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Marshallese: baļuun — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Mongolian: агаарын хөлөг (agaaryn xölög) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Navajo: chidí naatʼaʼí — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Norwegian Bokmål: luftfartøy — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: luftfartøy — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Ojibwe: bemisemagak — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Pannonian Rusyn: лєтадло (ljetadlo) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Pannonian Rusyn: воздухоплїв (vozduxopljiv) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Pannonian Rusyn: лєтачка (ljetačka) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Papiamentu: aeroplanu — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Persian: هواپیما (havâpeymâ) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Polish: statek powietrzny — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Polish: aerodyna — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Portuguese: aeronave — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Romanian: aeronavă — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Romanian: aparat de zbor — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Romanian: aparat zburător — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Russian: лета́тельный аппара́т (letátelʹnyj apparát) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Russian: возду́шное су́дно (vozdúšnoje súdno) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Russian: самолёт (samoljót) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Sanskrit: विमान (vimāna) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Serbo-Croatian: zrakoplov — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Serbo-Croatian: лѐтелица — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Serbo-Croatian: лѐтјелица — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Serbo-Croatian: lètelica — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Serbo-Croatian: lètjelica — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Serbo-Croatian: vazduhoplov — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Serbo-Croatian: zrȁkoplōv — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Slovak: lietadlo — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Slovene: letal — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Southern Altai: учатан аппарат (učatan apparat) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Spanish: aeronave — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Swedish: luftfartyg — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Swedish: luftfarkost — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Tagalog: eroplano — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Tajik: ҳавопаймо (havopaymo) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Tamil: விமானம் (vimāṉam) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Tatar: очкыч (oçqıç) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Telugu: విమానము (vimānamu) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Thai: อากาศยาน (aa-gàat-sà-yaan) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Tibetan: གནམ་གྲུ (gnam gru) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Tibetan: ནམ་མཁར་འཕུར་སྐྱོད་ཐུབ་པའི་གྲུ (nam mkhar 'phur skyod thub pa'i gru) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Tok Pisin: balus — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Turkish: hava taşıtı — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Turkish: hava aracı — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Ukrainian: літа́льний апара́т (litálʹnyj aparát) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Ukrainian: пові́тря́не судно́ (povítrjáne sudnó) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Ukrainian: літак (litak) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Urdu: طیارہ (teyāra) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Urdu: ہوائی جہاز (hawāī-jahāz) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Urdu: جہاز (jahāz) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Urdu: ہوا پیما (hawā-pemā) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Uzbek: samolyot — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Vietnamese: phi cơ — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Vietnamese: máy bay — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Võro: aeroplaan — machine capable of atmospheric flight
  • Yakut: самолет (samolet) — machine capable of atmospheric flight
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