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[ air-strip ] / ˈɛərˌstrɪp / SEE SYNONYMS FOR airstrip ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna small landing field having only one runway. a temporary or auxiliary aircraft runway. Origin of airstripFirst recorded in 1940–45; air1 + strip2 Words nearby airstripair sprayer, air spring, air station, airstream, air strike, airstrip, air-superiority, air switch, air syringe, air system, airt Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for airstripBut as the decades passed, airplanes replaced steamboats and folks abandoned Old Bettles to live near the airstrip. Visiting the Arctic Circle…Before It’s Irreversibly Changed|Terry Greene Sterling|April 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST Growing up in Lukla, Pasang watched planes land at the airstrip near her village. Breaking Mount Everest’s Glass Ceiling|Amanda Padoan, Peter Zuckerman|March 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST The engineer tapped on the microphone, and the tap, greatly amplified, reverberated across the airstrip. The Flaming Mountain|Harold Leland Goodwin He saw several flocks of ducks including one containing "about a dozen ducks" at ponds along a roadway and at an airstrip. The Avifauna of Micronesia, Volume 3|Rollin H. Baker
Shandor took a cab to the Georgetown airstrip, checked the fuel in the 'copter. Bear Trap|Alan Edward Nourse At Umiat (June 25, 1952), ptarmigan were using seven dusting pits on the shoulder of the airstrip. Birds Found on the Arctic Slope of Northern Alaska|James W. Bee
British Dictionary definitions for airstrip
nouna cleared area for the landing and taking off of aircraft; runwayAlso called: landing strip Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to airstripairfield, air base, ramp, platform, path, road, tarmac, runway, installation, strip, groove, channel, passageway, hangar, heliport, airdrome, field, landing, landing strip, port |