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airplanes

airplanes is the plural of airplane.

airplanes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of airplane.

Meaning of airplane

Noun

airplane (plural airplanes)

  1. (Canada, Philippines, US) A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor.
    • on an airplane
    1. (Canada, Philippines, US, usually) One that can carry a person or persons.
      • They use airplanes to deliver mail and supplies to the far northern villages.
  2. Any of various small flyable objects that are notionally comparable to such aircraft but aren't powered.
    • toy airplane
  3. (Canada, Philippines, US) A game to encourage small children to eat, in which the parent or carer pretends that a spoonful of food is an aircraft flying into the child's mouth; the spoonful itself.
    • Near-synonym: choo-choo train
    Synonyms:
    choo-choo train

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Phrases with airplanes

Questions about airplanes

What is airplanes the plural of?
Airplanes is the plural of airplane.

Words near airplanes in the dictionary

  1. airplane modes
  2. airplane ticket
  3. airplaned
  4. airplaneful
  5. airplanelike
  6. airplanes
  7. airplanesful
  8. airplaning
  9. airplanist
  10. airplanists
  11. airplant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: airplanes (page history and authors); airplane (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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