Thesaurus results for AERODROME

aerodrome

noun

ˈer-ə-ˌdrōm

Definition of aerodrome

chiefly British

as in airfield

a place from which aircraft operate that usually has paved runways and a terminal landed at the aerodrome in Surrey, south of London

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Recent Examples of aerodrome Ukraine begged former President Joe Biden and German leaders to no avail to provide long-range missiles that could hit distant Russian aerodromes and eliminate strategic bombers at the source. — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025 Ukraine begged former President Joe Biden and German leaders to no avail to provide long range missiles that could hit distant Russian aerodromes and eliminate strategic bombers at the source. — Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 7 June 2025 Its population — estimated at 18 in 2019 — consists only of Norwegian military personnel who operate its military aerodrome and meteorological station. — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 3 Apr. 2025 And a huge concrete area that looked like an aerodrome was awaiting rebuilding as a new suburb. — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for aerodrome

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The runway remained closed while authorities evaluated the airplane and determined how to recover and remove it from the airfield, Wright said.

— Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Armed British police stopped the men near the Gloucestershire airfield and detained them on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act.

— Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of airfield

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The service is intended to provide a more streamlined travel experience, including access to private terminals rather than crowded commercial airport facilities.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2026
Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster.

— Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2026

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