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airliner

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

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1

noun

Meaning 1

A passenger-carrying aircraft, especially one of a fleet operated by an airline.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: airplane, aeroplane, plane, aircraft, vehicle

2

noun

Meaning 2

a commercial airplane that carries passengers

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: airplane, aeroplane, plane

Narrower terms: airbus, narrowbody aircraft, narrow-body aircraft, narrow-body, widebody aircraft, wide-body aircraft, wide-body, twin-aisle airplane

History

Etymology

From air + liner.

Across languages

Translations

59 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: طَائِرَة رِحْلَات — passenger aircraft
  • Bulgarian: пътнически самолет (pǎtničeski samolet) — passenger aircraft
  • Catalan: avió de línia — passenger aircraft
  • Chinese Mandarin: 班機 /班机 (bānjī) — passenger aircraft
  • Chinese Mandarin: 客機 /客机 (kèjī) — passenger aircraft
  • Chinese Mandarin: 民航機 /民航机 (mínhángjī) — passenger aircraft
  • Czech: dopravní letoun — passenger aircraft
  • Danish: passagerfly — passenger aircraft
  • Dutch: passagiersvliegtuig — passenger aircraft
  • Dutch: lijnvliegtuig — passenger aircraft
  • Estonian: reisilennuk — passenger aircraft
  • Finnish: matkustajakone — passenger aircraft
  • Finnish: matkustajalentokone — passenger aircraft
  • French: avion de ligne — passenger aircraft
  • German: Passagierflugzeug — passenger aircraft
  • German: Verkehrsflugzeug — passenger aircraft
  • German: Linienflugzeug — passenger aircraft
  • German: Linienmaschine — passenger aircraft
  • German: Passagiermaschine — passenger aircraft
  • Greek: αεροπλάνο της γραμμής (aeropláno tis grammís) — passenger aircraft
  • Hebrew: מטוס נוסעים (metós nos'im) — passenger aircraft
  • Hindi: यात्री विमान (yātrī vimān) — passenger aircraft
  • Hungarian: utasszállító — passenger aircraft
  • Icelandic: farþegaflugvél — passenger aircraft
  • Indonesian: pesawat penumpang — passenger aircraft
  • Irish: aerlínéar — passenger aircraft
  • Italian: aereo di linea — passenger aircraft
  • Japanese: 旅客機 (ryokakuki) — passenger aircraft
  • Korean: 여객기 (yeogaekgi) — passenger aircraft
  • Latvian: gaisa laineris — passenger aircraft
  • Lithuanian: oro laineris — passenger aircraft
  • Malay: kapal terbang penumpang — passenger aircraft
  • Malay: pesawat penumpang — passenger aircraft
  • Norwegian Bokmål: passasjerfly — passenger aircraft
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: passasjerfly — passenger aircraft
  • Polish: samolot pasażerski — passenger aircraft
  • Portuguese: avião de passageiros — passenger aircraft
  • Romanian: avion de linie — passenger aircraft
  • Russian: пассажи́рский самолёт (passažírskij samoljót) — passenger aircraft
  • Russian: авиала́йнер (avialájner) — passenger aircraft
  • Russian: возду́шный ла́йнер (vozdúšnyj lájner) — passenger aircraft
  • Serbo-Croatian: пу̑тничкӣ авѝо̄н — passenger aircraft
  • Serbo-Croatian: pȗtničkī avìōn — passenger aircraft
  • Slovak: dopravné lietadlo — passenger aircraft
  • Slovene: potniško letalo — passenger aircraft
  • Spanish: avión de pasajeros — passenger aircraft
  • Spanish: avión de línea — passenger aircraft
  • Spanish: aerobús — passenger aircraft
  • Spanish: avión lineal — passenger aircraft
  • Swedish: passagerarflygplan — passenger aircraft
  • Swedish: passagerarplan — passenger aircraft
  • Swedish: trafikflygplan — passenger aircraft
  • Thai: สายการบิน (sǎai-gaan-bin) — passenger aircraft
  • Turkish: yolcu uçağı — passenger aircraft
  • Ukrainian: пасажи́рський літа́к (pasažýrsʹkyj liták) — passenger aircraft
  • Ukrainian: авіала́йнер (avialájner) — passenger aircraft
  • Vietnamese: máy bay dân dụng — passenger aircraft
  • Vietnamese: máy bay chở khách — passenger aircraft
  • Volapük: leflitöm — passenger aircraft
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