airplane, aeroplane, plane
(noun) an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; “the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
aeroplane (plural aeroplanes)
(Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Irish, India, UK) A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.
(aeronautics, archaic) An airfoil.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. Also called planes.
Canada officially uses aeroplane, and this word was also formerly used in the US, but that country now uses airplane. Some speakers in those places (Canada and the United States) may still idiolectally use aeroplane, however.
aeroplane (third-person singular simple present aeroplanes, present participle aeroplaning, simple past and past participle aeroplaned)
(intransitive) To fly in an aeroplane.
(transitive) To transport by aeroplane.
Source: Wiktionary
A"Ă«r*o*plane` (, n. Etym: [AĂ«ro- + plane.]
Definition: A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
12 February 2025
(noun) an abnormal enlargement of the colon; can be congenital (as in Hirschsprung’s disease) or acquired (as when children refuse to defecate)
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
