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air⋅plane

  [air-pleyn]
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–noun
1. a heavier-than-air aircraft kept aloft by the upward thrust exerted by the passing air on its fixed wings and driven by propellers, jet propulsion, etc.
2. any similar heavier-than-air aircraft, as a glider or helicopter.
Also, especially British, aeroplane.

Origin:
1870–75, for an earlier sense; alter. of aeroplane, with air 1 r. aero-
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air·plane   (âr'plān')   
n.  Any of various winged vehicles capable of flight, generally heavier than air and driven by jet engines or propellers.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

airplane 
1907, from air + plane; though the original references are British, the word caught on in Amer.Eng., where it largely superseding earlier aeroplane (1873, and still common in British Eng.; q.v.). Aircraft is also from 1907; airship is 1888, from Ger. Luftschiff "motor-driver dirigible." Air-raid first attested 1914, in ref. to British attacks on Cologne and Dusseldorf in WWI.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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