as in airfield
a place from which aircraft operate that usually has paved runways and a terminal
the airport nearest us has plane service on only one major airline
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Recent Examples of airport
And home construction is set to take off in Arapahoe County, especially south of the airport.
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Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2026
Trump is sending those punk ICE agents to work at airports to help TSA with the chaos.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026
This time, many travelers weren’t even aware there was a shutdown until lines wrapped around the airports.
—Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
The agency has been under a microscope over the past year as two government shutdowns, one in October 2025 and the current DHS appropriations lapse, which began in February 2026, led to hourslong airport security lines as TSA officers had to work without pay.
—Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 8 Apr. 2026
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Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2026
Trump is sending those punk ICE agents to work at airports to help TSA with the chaos.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026
This time, many travelers weren’t even aware there was a shutdown until lines wrapped around the airports.
—Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
The agency has been under a microscope over the past year as two government shutdowns, one in October 2025 and the current DHS appropriations lapse, which began in February 2026, led to hourslong airport security lines as TSA officers had to work without pay.
—Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airport
Noun
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The airfield is home to about 130 planes and dozens of student pilots.—
Madeleine Wright,
CBS News,
6 Apr. 2026
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They may also be used to saturate and destroy remaining airfields, command centers, and logistic hubs.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The base, which sat on a hill east of the city, in the Franconia region of northern Bavaria, was a former Luftwaffe aerodrome, and had been occupied by American forces in 1945 and renamed in 1947 to honor Captain John A. Leighton, a U.S. Army Air Forces officer killed in World War II.—
Robert Alexander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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All eight films were shot at Leavesden, a converted World War II-era aerodrome, which is now the production home base for the upcoming series.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Airport.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airport. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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