airfield

noun

air·​field ˈer-ˌfēld How to pronounce airfield (audio)
: an area of land from which aircraft operate: such as
a
b

Examples of airfield in a Sentence

the passenger jet made an emergency landing at an abandoned airfield
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To bring the sequence to life, production designer Mark Digby built a 360-degree set on an old airfield at Bovingdon Airfield Studios by using reference images from Google Earth and Ray’s own recollection. Matt Minton, Variety, 12 Apr. 2025 Making Warfare Filming took place outside of London at a World War II airfield that’s now a TV and film studio. Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 10 Apr. 2025 Miramar, a Broward County city, led the opposition to the mayor’s prior pick of an idle county airfield in northern Miami-Dade. Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025 Ukraine launched dozens of drones over large swathes of Russia overnight Monday, with three military airfields said to be among the targets. Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for airfield

Word History

First Known Use

1919, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of airfield was in 1919

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“Airfield.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/airfield. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.

Kids Definition

airfield

noun
air·​field ˈa(ə)r-ˌfēld How to pronounce airfield (audio)
ˈe(ə)r-
1
: the landing field of an airport
2

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