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air·port (-pôrt′)

noun

a place where aircraft can land and take off, usually equipped with hangars, facilities for refueling and repair, accommodations for passengers, etc.

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airport Synonyms

airport

n.

airfield, airdrome, aerodrome, jetport, spaceport, airstrip, flying field, landing field, landing zone, landing strip, air base, hangar, air terminal, terminal, runway, heliport, helipad, dock, installations.

Noted U.S. airports include: John F. Kennedy (JFK; New York), La Guardia (New York), O'Hare (Chicago), LAX (Los Angeles International), National (Washington, D.C.), Dulles (Washington, D.C.), Hartsfield (Atlanta), Logan (Boston), Stapleton (Denver), McCarran (Las Vegas), Sky Harbor (Phoenix), Lambert (St. Louis).


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airport Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • depart: After the plane lands, the pilot telephones the passengers at the departing airport to inform them that they have arrived.

Preposition: for

  • flight: Day 8: transfer to the airport for the return flight to the UK.

Adjective modifier

  • stansted: Read more New Essex coach service now runs to Stansted airport.

Modifies a noun

  • parking: Extra days are charged at £ 2.50 per day at the hotel or the airport parking gate price.

Noun used with modifier

  • heathrow: Instead people went for a wander across the allegedly secure part of heathrow airport in a quest for security staff.
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airport quotes

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression'as prettyas an airport'.

-Adams, Douglas Noe«  l

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