airplane
A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor.
Noun 3 meanings
A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor.
“on an airplane”
Any of various small flyable objects that are notionally comparable to such aircraft but aren't powered.
“paper airplane”
A game to encourage small children to eat, in which the parent or carer pretends that a spoonful of food is an aircraft flying into the child's mouth; the spoonful itself.
“Near-synonym: choo-choo train”
Verb 2 meanings
To fly in an aeroplane.
To transport by aeroplane.
Etymology
From air + plane as an alteration of aeroplane.
AIRPLANE at a glance
AIRPLANE has 8 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (A 1 + I 1 + R 1 + P 3 + L 1 + A 1 + N 1 + E 1) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,882 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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