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paper airplanes

paper airplanes is the plural 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

Questions about paper airplanes

What is paper airplanes the plural of?
Paper airplanes is the plural of paper airplane.

Words near paper airplanes in the dictionary

  1. Papenfusses
  2. paper
  3. paper aeroplane
  4. paper aeroplanes
  5. paper airplane
  6. paper airplanes
  7. paper anniversaries
  8. paper anniversary
  9. paper bag
  10. paper bag job
  11. paper bag jobs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paper airplanes (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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