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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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air·plane Audio Help (âr'plān') Pronunciation Key
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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