as in airport
a place from which aircraft operate that usually has paved runways and a terminal
the passenger jet made an emergency landing at an abandoned airfield
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Recent Examples of airfield
Operations at the airfield near North Highlands has resumed.
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Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 16 Jan. 2026
The aircraft flew from Predannack airfield on the Lizard Peninsula, marking a breakthrough for uncrewed military aviation.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Jan. 2026
So what happened to that busy and historic little airfield?
—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
His plan centered on seizing the Hostomel airfield, a crucial staging post for an assault on the capital, but Putin’s forces got bogged down and eventually withdrew.
—Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 8 Jan. 2026
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Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 16 Jan. 2026
The aircraft flew from Predannack airfield on the Lizard Peninsula, marking a breakthrough for uncrewed military aviation.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Jan. 2026
So what happened to that busy and historic little airfield?
—Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
His plan centered on seizing the Hostomel airfield, a crucial staging post for an assault on the capital, but Putin’s forces got bogged down and eventually withdrew.
—Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 8 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airfield
Noun
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Nonstop flights from Newark and Miami have made Dominica far easier to reach, and momentum is building ahead of a new international airport scheduled to open in 2027.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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Tens of thousands of Minnesotans are protesting peacefully downtown and at the airport.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Ukraine begged former President Joe Biden and German leaders to no avail to provide long-range missiles that could hit distant Russian aerodromes and eliminate strategic bombers at the source.—
Trudy Rubin,
Twin Cities,
8 June 2025
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Ukraine begged former President Joe Biden and German leaders to no avail to provide long range missiles that could hit distant Russian aerodromes and eliminate strategic bombers at the source.—
Trudy Rubin,
Mercury News,
7 June 2025
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This 2004 shingled contemporary has a heated six-car garage readily convertible into an event space, as well as an airstrip, Lake Champlain frontage, and a guest apartment.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
20 Jan. 2026
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The details of the crash were also detailed in an incident report from the Aviation Safety Network, which alleged that the two-person glider crashed shortly after takeoff at the private airstrip and that the aircraft sustained substantial damage.—
Desiree Anello,
PEOPLE,
28 Dec. 2025
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“Airfield.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airfield. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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