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fuselage

noun · 2 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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  • /ˈfjuːzəˌlɑːʒ/
  • /ˈfjuːsəˌlɑːʒ/
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  • CMU ARPABET: F Y UW1 S AH0 L AA2 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  • CMU ARPABET 2: F Y UW1 S AH0 L IH0 JH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The main body of an aerospace vehicle; the long central structure of an aircraft to which the wings (or rotors), tail, and engines are attached, and which accommodates crew and cargo.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

the central body of an airplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: body

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin fūsusder. Old French fusel Proto-Italic *-āzi ▲ Latin -ereinflu. Latin -āre Old French -ier Middle French -er French -er French fuseler Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātus Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus Latin -āticus Latin -āticum Old French -age Middle French -age French -age French fuselagebor. English fuselage Borrowed from French fuselage. Ultimately from Latin fūsus (“spindle, spinning wheel”). For the meaning development, compare rocket, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rukkô (“spinning wheel, distaff”) (whence also English rock (“distaff, the flax or wool on a distaff”)).

Across languages

Translations

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: جِسْم طَائِرَة (jism ṭāʔira) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Arabic: جِسْم (jism) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Armenian: ֆյուզելաժ (fyuzelaž) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Azerbaijani: füzelyaj — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Azerbaijani: təyyarənin gövdəsi — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Belarusian: фюзеля́ж (fjuzjeljáž) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Belarusian: фюзэля́ж (fjuzeljáž) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Bulgarian: фюзела́ж (fjuzeláž) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Catalan: buc — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Chinese Cantonese: 機身 /机身 (gei1 san1) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Chinese Mandarin: 機身 /机身 (jīshēn) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Czech: trup — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Danish: fuselage — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Danish: skrog — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Danish: flykrop — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Dutch: vliegtuigromp — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Dutch: romp — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Finnish: runko — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • French: fuselage — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Galician: fuselaxe — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Georgian: ფიუზელაჟი (piuzelaži) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • German: Flugzeugrumpf — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • German: Rumpf — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Greek: άτρακτος (átraktos) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Hungarian: törzs — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Hungarian: repülőgéptörzs — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Indonesian: badan — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Italian: fusoliera — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Japanese: 胴体 (dōtai) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Japanese: 機体 (kitai) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Kazakh: фюзеляж (füzeläj) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Korean: 동체 (dongche) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Korean: 기체 (giche) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Kyrgyz: фюзеляж (fyuzelyaj) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Latvian: fizelāža — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Lithuanian: fiuzeliažas — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Macedonian: труп (trup) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Malay: fiuslaj — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Māori: tīwai — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Māori: kōhiwi — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Mongolian: их бие (ix bije) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Norwegian Bokmål: flykropp — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: flykropp — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Iranian Persian: بَدَنِه (badane) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Polish: kadłub — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Portuguese: fuselagem — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Romanian: fuzelaj — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Russian: фюзеля́ж (fjuzeljáž) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Serbo-Croatian: тру̑п — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Serbo-Croatian: trȗp — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Slovak: trup — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Slovene: trup — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Spanish: fuselaje — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Swedish: flygkropp — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Swedish: flygplanskropp — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Tagalog: puselahe — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Tajik: фюзеляж (fyuzelyaž) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Turkish: füzelaj — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Ukrainian: фюзеля́ж (fjuzeljáž) — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Uzbek: fyuzelyaj — main body of aerospace vehicle
  • Vietnamese: thân — main body of aerospace vehicle
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