airplane

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets

   The flight arrived early due to a newer, faster airplane.

2. 2
   noun

   A game to encourage small children to eat, in which the parent or carer pretends a spoonful of food is an aircraft flying into the child's mouth.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.

4. 4
   verb

   To fly in an aeroplane.

5. 5
   verb

   To transport by aeroplane.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewsér Proto-Hellenic *auhḗr Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)bor. Latin āēr Old French airbor. Middle English aire English air ▲ Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr) Ancient Greek πλανάω (planáō) Ancient Greek πλάνος (plános) Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ερόπλᾰνος (āeróplănos)der. French aéroplanebor. English aeroplaneclip. English plane English airplane From air + plane as an alteration of aeroplane.