as in airfield
a place from which aircraft operate that usually has paved runways and a terminal the airport nearest us has plane service on only one major airline

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Recent Examples of airport December 2003: Jennifer meets Fotis at the Aspen airport. Lizz Schumer, People.com, 17 May 2025 The woman tried to exit the airport and turned on her left blinker, but the Dodge Durango driver sped up and wouldn’t allow her in. Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 16 May 2025 The estate is about 30 miles from Kona International Airport (KOA), the main airport serving the Big Island of Hawaii. Monica Lander, Mercury News, 16 May 2025 Videos shared on social media by the news agency of the Philippine government showed chaos at the airport, and a black SUV crashed into the entryway of the terminal. Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 4 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for airport
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Noun
  • On Thursday, June 13th, Clooney landed at a private airfield in the Los Angeles area.
    Jake Tapper, New Yorker, 13 May 2025
  • Airlines have been proactively altering their schedules, partly by canceling some flights in and out of Newark, to address the current limitations at the airfield.
    Zach Wichter, USA Today, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • Its population — estimated at 18 in 2019 — consists only of Norwegian military personnel who operate its military aerodrome and meteorological station.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The aim is to commercialize both piloted and autonomous civilian aircraft and the $1.4 billion will be spent creating a city-wide infrastructure for flying vehicles, with over 100 take-off and landing points in Guangzhou, a large general aviation aerodrome and a fleet of airborne taxis.
    Mike Hanlon, New Atlas, 13 Aug. 2024

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“Airport.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airport. Accessed 29 May. 2025.

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