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airfield

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An open field designated for the taking off and landing of aircraft, but which, unlike an airport, does not necessarily have terminals or paved runways.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

a place where planes take off and land

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: landing field, flying field, field

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: facility, installation

Narrower terms: airport, airdrome, aerodrome, drome, airstrip, flight strip, landing strip, strip, auxiliary airfield

History

Etymology

From air + field.

Across languages

Translations

75 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: vliegveld — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Albanian: aerodrom — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Arabic: مَهْبِط (mahbiṭ) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Arabic: مَدْرَج (madraj) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Armenian: աերոդրոմ (aerodrom) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Azerbaijani: aerodrom — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Basque: aerodromo — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Belarusian: аэрадро́м (aeradróm) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Bulgarian: аеродру́м (aerodrúm) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Bulgarian: лети́ще (letíšte) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Catalan: aeròdrom — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Chinese Mandarin: 飛機場 /飞机场 (fēijīchǎng) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Chinese Mandarin: 機場 /机场 (jīchǎng) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Czech: letiště — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Danish: landingsplads — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Danish: flyveplads — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Dutch: vliegveld — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Estonian: lennuväli — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Faroese: flogvøllur — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Finnish: lentokenttä — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • French: aérodrome — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Galician: aeródromo — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Georgian: აეროდრომი (aerodromi) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • German: Flugplatz — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Greek: αεροδρόμιο (aerodrómio) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Hindi: हवाई मैदान (havāī maidān) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Icelandic: flugvöllur — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Indonesian: lapangan terbang — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Irish: aerpháirc — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Italian: aerodromo — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Japanese: 飛行場 (hikōjō) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Kazakh: аэродром (aérodrom) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Korean: 비행장 (bihaengjang) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Kyrgyz: аэродром (aerodrom) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Latvian: aerodroms — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Lithuanian: aerodromas — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Macedonian: леталиште (letalište) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Macedonian: аеродро́м (aerodróm) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Malay: padang terbang — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Malay: lapangan terbang — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Norwegian Bokmål: landingsstripe — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Norwegian Bokmål: flyplass — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Iranian Persian: پَرْوازْگاه (parvâzgâh) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Iranian Persian: فُرودْگاه (forudgâh) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Polish: lądowisko — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Polish: lotnisko — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Polish: aerodrom — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Portuguese: aeródromo — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Romanian: aerodrom — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Russian: аэродро́м (aerodróm) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Serbo-Croatian: аеро̀дром — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Serbo-Croatian: aeròdrom — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Slovak: letisko — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Slovene: letališče — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Spanish: aeródromo — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Spanish: aeroparque — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Spanish: campo de aviación — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Swedish: flygfält — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Swedish: flygplats — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Tajik: аэродром (aerodrom) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Tajik: фурудгоҳ (furudgoh) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Tajik: парвозгоҳ (parvozgoh) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Lower Tanana: nonoch'endedekde — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Turkish: aerodrom — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Ukrainian: аеродро́м (aerodróm) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Ukrainian: лето́вище (letóvyšče) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Urdu: ہَوائی مَیدان (havāī maidān) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Urdu: طَیران گاہ (tairān gāh) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Urdu: فِضائی مُسْتَقَر (fizāī mustaqar) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Uzbek: aerodrom — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Vietnamese: sân bay — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Vietnamese: trường bay — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Yiddish: אַעראָדראָם (aerodrom) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Yiddish: לופֿטפֿעלד (luftfeld) — place where airplanes can take off and land
  • Yiddish: פֿליפֿעלד (flifeld) — place where airplanes can take off and land
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