Meaning

(chiefly US, Canada, Philippines) A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor..

Definitions by Sense

1. (chiefly US, Canada, Philippines) A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor.
2. Any of various small flyable objects that are notionally comparable to such aircraft but aren't powered.
3. (chiefly US, Canada, Philippines) 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.
4. (intransitive) To fly in an aeroplane.
5. (transitive) To transport by aeroplane.

Example Sentences

on an airplane

jet airplane

RC airplane

toy airplane

paper airplane

Near-synonym: choo-choo train

Here comes the airplane! Open wide!

So, he'd take a spoon and he'd start playing airplane, circling the spoon around in the air until it was ready to land in the runway of my mouth.

Word Forms

• airplanes
• aeroplane
• aëroplane
• plane
• airplaning
• airplaned

Synonyms for airplane

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When Should You Use Airplane?

Use airplane when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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