airplane
/ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/ noun A1- A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor. · on an airplane· jet airplane
- One that can carry a person or persons. · They use airplanes to deliver mail and supplies to the far northern villages.
- Any of various small flyable objects that are notionally comparable to such aircraft but aren't powered. · toy airplane· 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· Here comes the airplane! Open wide!
Plural airplanes
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Then, they built a real airplane.
Orville got in the new airplane.
The airplane went up in the air.
I flew on an airplane all by myself.
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