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airport books

airport books is the plural of airport book.

Meaning of airport book

Noun

airport book (plural airport books)

  1. A book to be read in one sitting, especially during plane travel.
    • Modern readers recognize the quiet, lone hours spent by Henry James’s character Isabel Archer, that immersive reading experienced not only by devotees of James but by escapist fans of the genre known as “airport books.”2010 August 13, Robert Pinsky, “Start the Presses”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    airport novel

Questions about airport books

What is airport books the plural of?
Airport books is the plural of airport book.

Words near airport books in the dictionary

  1. airpocalypses
  2. airponic
  3. airponics
  4. airport
  5. airport book
  6. airport books
  7. airport fiction
  8. airport lounge
  9. airport lounges
  10. airport malaria
  11. airport novel

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