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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 air¹ r. aero-

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n. Any of various winged vehicles capable of flight, generally heavier than air and driven by jet engines or propellers.

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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.

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airplane
noun
an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"

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ˈairplane noun

(American) an aeroplane

Arabic:	طَائِرَه
Chinese (Simplified):	飛機
Chinese (Traditional):	飛機
Czech:	letadlo
Danish:	fly; flyvemaskine
Dutch:	vliegtuig
Estonian:	lennuk
Finnish:	lentokone
French:	avion
German:	das Flugzeug
Greek:	αεροπλάνο
Hungarian:	repülőgép
Icelandic:	flugvél
Indonesian:	pesawat, kapal terbang
Italian:	aereo, aeroplano

Japanese:	飛行機
Korean:	비행기
Latvian:	lidmašīna
Lithuanian:	lėktuvas
Norwegian:	fly
Polish:	samolot
Portuguese (Brazil):	avião
Portuguese (Portugal):	avião
Romanian:	avion
Russian:	самолёт
Slovak:	lietadlo
Slovenian:	letalo
Spanish:	avión
Swedish:	flygplan
Turkish:	uçak