Word.ws English Dictionary

motor glider

motor glider noun: a sailplane (glider) equipped with an auxiliary motor.

motor glider: a sailplane (glider) equipped with an auxiliary motor
Image: Carsten Runge, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

motor glider (plural motor gliders)

  1. A sailplane (glider) equipped with an auxiliary motor.

Forms of motor glider

pluralmotor gliders

Origin of motor glider

motor + glider

Questions about motor glider

What does motor glider mean?
Motor glider means a sailplane (glider) equipped with an auxiliary motor.
What part of speech is motor glider?
Motor glider is a noun.
What is the plural of motor glider?
The plural of motor glider is motor gliders.

Words near motor glider in the dictionary

  1. motor cruisers
  2. motor cycle
  3. motor cycles
  4. motor factor
  5. motor factors
  6. motor glider
  7. motor gliders
  8. motor home
  9. motor homes
  10. motor hotel
  11. motor hotels

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: motor glider (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “motor glider.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/motor_glider. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.