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Synonyms

airport

1 American  
[air-pawrt, -pohrt] / ˈɛərˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrt /

noun

  1. a tract of land or water with facilities for the landing, takeoff, shelter, supply, and repair of aircraft, especially one used for receiving or discharging passengers and cargo at regularly scheduled times.

airport 2 American  
[air-pawrt, -pohrt] / ˈɛərˌpɔrt, -ˌpoʊrt /

noun

Nautical.

  1. a porthole designed to be opened to the outside air.

airport British  
/ ˈɛəˌpɔːt /

noun

  1. a landing and taking-off area for civil aircraft, usually with surfaced runways and aircraft maintenance and passenger facilities

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Etymology

Origin of airport1

1915–20; air 1 + port 1, on the model of seaport

Origin of airport2

First recorded in 1780–90; air 1 + port 4

Example Sentences

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Temperature readings at a Paris airport earned a mystery trader $21,000—and sparked a probe into alleged tampering with a weather station.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Local media filmed Offeh arriving at Kotoko international airport in Accra, Ghana, earlier this week.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2026

Its Paris contract is based on the reading at Charles de Gaulle airport, as reported by Weather Underground, an online weather data provider.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

It is a contrast to the chaotic construction of Berlin's international airport -- a catalogue of problems meant it took 14 years to build the site, which finally opened in 2020.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

“What happened to those big airport headphones you used to wear?”

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

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