as in airfield
a place from which aircraft operate that usually has paved runways and a terminal the airport nearest us has plane service on only one major airline

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Recent Examples of airport Once they are collectively greeted at the airport by Jorg (Peter Diseth), Moretti’s personal majordomo, the group is whisked away to the singer’s massive middle-of-nowhere estate. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Jan. 2025 November was the most recent month for which statistics were available for the two airports. George Avalos, The Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2025 The two met with Stephen Rapp, who was then the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, at a hotel near Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025 Passengers wait to board an aircraft of low cost Irish airline Ryanair at the Berlin-Brandenburg airport in Schoenefeld near Berlin, Germany, on March 13, 2024. Sam Meredith, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for airport 

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“Airport.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airport. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.

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