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aeroplane

noun

ˈer-ə-ˌplān

Definition of aeroplane

chiefly British

as in airplane

a vehicle for traveling through the air that has fixed wings for lift an exhibit of a few of the aeroplanes that won the Battle of Britain

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Recent Examples of aeroplane Birkin famously sketched her ideal bag on an aeroplane sickness bag and the rest is history. — Kian Bakhtiari, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025 It is inspired by the extraordinary real-life story of Mathias Rust, a young West German teenager in 1987 who shocked the world by flying through Soviet air defences and landed a Cessna aeroplane right in the middle of the Red Square. — Annika Pham, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025 This is especially true with the lower circulating oxygen levels on an aeroplane, in people with breathing problems or when combined with alcohol. — Brian Dillon, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024 An aeroplane flies behind the Adani logo near a building construction site in Mumbai. — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for aeroplane

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Starlink services were cut off for objects that traveled more than 100 mph, impacting the capabilities of Ukraine’s drones, airplanes and helicopters, a source familiar with the matter told The Hill.

— Suryatapa Chakraborty, The Hill, 15 Oct. 2026
Multiple resources were called in on the night of the shooting, including SWAT, K-9 teams, patrol officers, drones, a Denver Police Department helicopter and a Colorado State Patrol airplane.

— Jack Lowenstein, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

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An expedition to find evidence of Amelia Earhart’s missing plane near a remote island in the South Pacific has come up empty, researchers said Sunday.

— Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2026
Well outside Cuba’s territorial waters, Cuban MiGs destroyed two of the civilian planes with air-to-air missiles, killing the four occupants, the complaint said.

— David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

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