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Cessna

/ˈsɛsnə/

Cessna proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Cessna (plural Cessnas)

  1. A surname.
  2. An American aircraft manufacturer, founded by Clyde Cessna (1879–1954), now part of Textron Aviation.
    • That airplane would sell for $1.5 million or more if Cessna or Piper or Aero Commander were building it today2019, Mike Busch, Airplane Ownership vol 1, Savvy Aviator Inc, page 18

Noun

Cessna (plural Cessnas)

  1. An airplane of the Cessna brand.
    • John and I traveled together quite often […] sometimes we took John’s single-engine Cessna T210 and sometimes my twin-engine Cessna T310R2019, Mike Busch, Airplane Ownership vol 1, Savvy Aviator Inc, page 14
    • Three people who were onboard the twin-engine Cessna 310 when it crashed were killed, according to Michael LaSalle, assistant fire chief with Boca Raton Fire Rescue.2025 April 11, Aaron Cooper and Rebekah Riess, “3 people killed after small plane crashes on busy Boca Raton street”, in CNN

Forms of Cessna

Proper noun
pluralCessnas
Noun
pluralCessnas

Questions about Cessna

What does Cessna mean?
Cessna means a surname.
What part of speech is Cessna?
Cessna can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Cessna?
Cessna is pronounced /ˈsɛsnə/.

Words near Cessna in the dictionary

  1. cessionaries
  2. cessionary
  3. cessions
  4. cessment
  5. cessments
  6. Cessna
  7. Cessnas
  8. Cessnock
  9. Cesson
  10. cessor
  11. cessors

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