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a Boeing 737 airplane

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-
Proto-Indo-European*h₂ewsér
Proto-Hellenic*auhḗr
Ancient Greekᾱ̓ήρ(āḗr)bor.
Latināēr
Old Frenchairbor.
Middle Englishaire
Englishair
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Ancient Greekᾱ̓ήρ(āḗr)
Ancient Greekπλανάω(planáō)
Ancient Greekπλάνος(plános)
Ancient Greekᾱ̓ερόπλᾰνος(āeróplănos)der.
Englishplane
Englishairplane

    Fromair +‎plane as an alteration ofaeroplane.[1][2]

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    airplane (pluralairplanes)

    1. (chiefly US, Canada, Philippines) Apoweredheavier-than-airaircraft with fixedwings.
      Hypernym:aircraft
    2. (chiefly US, Canada, Philippines) 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.
      • 1988, Matthew Linn, Sheila Fabricant, Dennis Linn,Healing the Eight Stages of Life, Paulist Press,→ISBN, page66:
        So, he'd take a spoon and he'd start playingairplane, circling the spoon around in the air until it was ready to land in the runway of my mouth.
      • 199703, Maria Flook,Open Water, Ecco Press,→ISBN:
        Willis wondered what this fellow wanted to do, spoon feed him? Playairplane?
      • 2013 May 13, Theo L. Dorpat, Michael L. Miller,Clinical Interaction and the Analysis of Meaning: A New Psychoanalytic Theory, Routledge,→ISBN:
        For instance, Jan has taken to playingairplane with the spoon to get Charley to attend to the spoon and want to take it into his mouth.

    Derived terms

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    Translations

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    powered aircraft

    Verb

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    airplane (third-person singular simple presentairplanes,present participleairplaning,simple past and past participleairplaned)

    1. (intransitive) To fly in an aeroplane.
    2. (transitive) To transport by aeroplane.

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    References

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    1. ^“airplane,n.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
    2. ^Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “airplane (n.)”, inOnline Etymology Dictionary.

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