noun
aeroplane
EHR-uh-playn
noun
1
British term for a powered aircraft with fixed wings; an airplane.
"They watched the aeroplane climb steadily into the clouds."
How to Use Aeroplane
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA fixed-wing powered aircraft.
UK vs US
British and Commonwealth English uses "aeroplane"; American English uses "airplane."
Word Forms
aeroplaned past tense, aeroplanes plural, aeroplanes singular
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Etymology
Borrowed from French aéroplane, from Greek ἀήρ ("air") plus πλάνος ("wandering"). The term was first used in an 1855 patent.