: a large jet aircraft characterized by a wide cabin

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New vantage points of the UPS wide-body cargo plane crash in Kentucky on Tuesday are pouring in, and one captured on CCTV footage from a local business shows just how quickly the massive fireball erupted. Pilar Arias, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025 The aircraft was described by the FAA as a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, a trijet wide-body airliner manufactured by McDonnell Douglas and later Boeing. Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025 When the aircraft maker reports Wednesday morning, delivery rates will be a key watch item, particularly for the 787 wide-body model and the narrow-body 737 Max, the latter of which the Federal Aviation Administration recently allowed Boeing to increase production to 42 per month. Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2025 The two companies aim to deliver an initial drone that is cost-effective and comes with multiple launch options, such as air drop, ground launch, maritime launch, and launch from a wide-body logistics aircraft. Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wide-body

Word History

First Known Use

1979, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of wide-body was in 1979

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“Wide-body.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wide-body. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.

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