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tankodrome

Syllables: tanko·drome

tankodrome noun: a training location for use of tanks; tank park.

Noun

tankodrome (plural tankodromes)

  1. (obsolete) A training location for use of tanks; tank park.
    • Prospective tank-drivers tramped up early every morning to the Tank Park or “Tankodrome”—a couple of large fields in which workshops had been erected, some trenches dug, and a few shell-craters blown1919, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 205, W. Blackwood, page 588

Forms of tankodrome

pluraltankodromes
alternative formtankdrome

Origin of tankodrome

1918, tank + -o- + -drome, after aerodrome.

Questions about tankodrome

What does tankodrome mean?
Tankodrome means a training location for use of tanks; tank park.
What part of speech is tankodrome?
Tankodrome is a noun.
What is the plural of tankodrome?
The plural of tankodrome is tankodromes.

Words near tankodrome in the dictionary

  1. tankmate
  2. tankmates
  3. tankmen
  4. tankobon
  5. tankobons
  6. tankodrome
  7. tankodromes
  8. tankoubon
  9. tankoubons
  10. tankproof
  11. tankroom

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