Definition of airport
: a place from which aircraft operate that usually has paved runways and maintenance facilities and often serves as a terminal
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Examples of airport in a Sentence
the airport nearest us has plane service on only one major airline
Recent Examples of airport from the Web
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June 27, 2016 -- Lynch met with President Bill Clinton at an airport in Phoenix after Clinton realized the two were on separate planes on the same tarmac.
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Witnesses described heavy fighting to the city's south on Thursday morning, near its airport.
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As a sign of goodwill, Macedonia had already removed a statue that looked rather like Alexander from its airport.
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Tensions were certainly not alleviated when the Republic of Macedonia named the main airport in its capital city of Skopje after Alexander the Great.
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How to get there: Montego Bay is the closest international airport.
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Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales declared three days of national mourning, and their main airport has been closed off.
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Aviation authorities closed the capital's international airport because of the danger posed to planes by the ash.
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The eruption forced the Guatemala City’s La Aurora international airport to shut down its only runway due to the presence of volcanic ash and to guarantee passenger and aircraft safety, Guatemala’s civil aviation authority said in a Tweet.
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First Known Use of airport
1902
AIRPORT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of airport for English Language Learners
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: a place where aircraft land and take off and where there are buildings for passengers to wait in and for aircraft to be sheltered
AIRPORT Defined for Kids
Definition of airport for Students
: a place where aircraft land and take off and where there are usually buildings for passengers to wait in and for aircraft and equipment to be kept
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