AERODROME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aerodrome mean? 

• AERODROME (noun)
  The noun AERODROME has 1 sense:

1. an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo

  Familiarity information: AERODROME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AERODROME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

aerodrome; airdrome; airport; drome

Hypernyms ("aerodrome" is a kind of...):

airfield; field; flying field; landing field (a place where planes take off and land)

Meronyms (parts of "aerodrome"):

airdock; hangar; repair shed (a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained)

air terminal; airport terminal (a terminal that serves air travelers or air freight)

control tower (a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aerodrome"):

heliport (an airport for helicopters)

Instance hyponyms:

Kennedy; Kennedy International; Kennedy International Airport (a large airport on Long Island to the east of New York City)

 Context examples 

Then, the flight grew lower and the circle narrower, until they were whizzing round and round us, the dry, rustling flap of their huge slate-colored wings filling the air with a volume of sound that made me think of Hendon aerodrome upon a race day.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)