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paper aeroplane

paper aeroplane is the commonwealth form of paper airplane.

Meaning of paper airplane

Noun

paper airplane (plural paper airplanes)

  1. (US) A toy airplane made by folding up a sheet of paper.
    Synonyms:
    paper plane, paper flier, paper flyer, paper dart, dart
  2. (US) An aircraft under development (so named because it remains only on paper to date; a tongue-in-cheek sense with acknowledgment of the original sense).
    Synonyms:
    paper plane

Forms of paper aeroplane

pluralpaper aeroplanes

Questions about paper aeroplane

What is paper aeroplane the commonwealth form of?
Paper aeroplane is the commonwealth form of paper airplane.

Words near paper aeroplane in the dictionary

  1. Papenburg
  2. Papendrecht
  3. Papenfuss
  4. Papenfusses
  5. paper
  6. paper aeroplane
  7. paper aeroplanes
  8. paper airplane
  9. paper airplanes
  10. paper anniversaries
  11. paper anniversary

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paper aeroplane (page history and authors); paper 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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