airport A1 Topic:Travel US /ˈɛɹ.pɔɹt/ UK /ˈɛə.pɔːt/ See IPA manual Freq #1977 Meanings 1 noun A place where aircraft take off and land, with runways and terminals for passengers. She met Sam and the others at the airport at 7:00 am. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · a place where aircraft take... aerodrome Word family Forms airports Common collocations airport terminal Noun + noun Etymology AI details From air + port. Topics Travel External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # airport **Type:** Word **Level:** A1 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ˈɛɹ.pɔɹt/ **IPA (UK):** /ˈɛə.pɔːt/ **Frequency rank:** 1977 ## Meanings 1. A place where aircraft take off and land, with runways and terminals for passengers. ## Examples - She met Sam and the others at the airport at 7:00 am. ## Etymology From air + port. ## AI Etymology Airport is from air plus port. The formation is semantically transparent: the parts remain visible, while the compound or affix fixes the grammatical role and narrows the modern meaning. In use as a noun, airport denotes a place where aircraft take off and land, with runways and terminals for passengers. Typical contexts include “She met Sam and the others at the airport at 7:00 am”. The meaning stays close to the form: it applies the etymological material to a place where aircraft take off and land, with runways and terminals for passengers, keeping the visible parts legible in ordinary use. ## Topics - Travel markdown