Aerodrome Definition
ârə-drōm
aerodromes
noun
aerodromes
An airport or airfield.
American Heritage
An airport, esp. a small one.
Webster's New World
An airfield:
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1911 October, The Progress of Science: Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Popular Science,
An aerodrome, chiefly of steel, weighing, apart from fuel and water, about twenty-four pounds, was launched on the Potomac River on May 6, 1896, and flew for over half a mile.
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1914 December, Popular Mechanics, page 811,
This was apparently due to the weakness of the old Manley motor with which the aerodrome was originally equipped and which was capable of developing only 52 horsepower.
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Other Word Forms of Aerodrome
Noun
Singular:
aerodrome
Plural:
aerodromesOrigin of Aerodrome
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From aero-, by analogy with hippodrome (“horse racecourse”), from Ancient Greek.
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