Definition of seaplane
:an airplane designed to take off from and land on the water
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The pier would be home to watersports, a seaplane terminal, a spa, a park, a farmers market, and possibly other amenities that would benefit the nearby condos and apartment buildings.
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A Navy seaplane on routine patrol spotted the 321 remaining survivors three and a half days after the sinking.
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The 'Scrubs' creator was on board a small seaplane that reportedly suffered a pontoon breakage.
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Their big white seaplane, L’Oiseau Blanc (the White Bird) — with its skull and cross bones insignia — was scheduled to set down in the harbor any second, completing what all hoped would be the first nonstop flight between Paris and New York.
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They're best seen from the air, either by hiring a seaplane or helicopter, or from the restaurant on the 52nd floor of the nearby Harbour Residence and Spa Hotel.
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EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. — A seaplane was waddling toward the runway.
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As Warren King George, historian for the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe Preservation Program, looks out over his ancestral homeland at Lake Union, a seaplane zooms from the thicket of buildings that supplanted forests of cedar and fir.
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There are Instagram influencers, whose offices are beaches and tiny seaplanes in the Maldives.
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First Known Use of seaplane
1913
SEAPLANE Defined for English Language Learners
seaplane
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Definition of seaplane for English Language Learners
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: an airplane that can take off from and land on water
SEAPLANE Defined for Kids
seaplane
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sea·plane
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Definition of seaplane for Students
:an airplane that can rise from and land on water
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