: a place from which aircraft operate that usually has paved runways and maintenance facilities and often serves as a terminal
Examples of airport in a Sentence
the airport nearest us has plane service on only one major airline
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Affected airports alongside Chicago included Denver, Newark, Houston and San Francisco, per the FAA.
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Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
In all, the funding requested by members of the state's House delegation covered 49 projects across Wisconsin, touching on everything from housing in Milwaukee to a freight infrastructure project in Monroe County to improvements to Green Bay's airport.
—Lawrence Andrea, jsonline.com, 7 Aug. 2025
And if something goes really, really wrong, Miguel and I will head directly to the airport and take the next flight out.
—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
Newark airport had just experienced a brief radar blackout, and on the same day our class was held, the aviation hub was having air-traffic-control staffing issues.
—Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2025
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Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
In all, the funding requested by members of the state's House delegation covered 49 projects across Wisconsin, touching on everything from housing in Milwaukee to a freight infrastructure project in Monroe County to improvements to Green Bay's airport.
—Lawrence Andrea, jsonline.com, 7 Aug. 2025
And if something goes really, really wrong, Miguel and I will head directly to the airport and take the next flight out.
—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
Newark airport had just experienced a brief radar blackout, and on the same day our class was held, the aviation hub was having air-traffic-control staffing issues.
—Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2025
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“Airport.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airport. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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airport
noun
air·port
ˈa(ə)r-ˌpōrt 
ˈe(ə)r-,
-ˌpȯrt
: a place from which aircraft operate that usually has paved runways and maintenance facilities and often serves as a terminal
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