aerodrome

Meaning

Noun

• An airfield:
• A flying machine composed of aeroplanes. An aeroplane, particularly one constructed by or according to the design of Samuel Pierpont Langley and Charles M. Manly.

Origin

• In the obsolete sense of “flying machine” , from Ancient Greek ἀεροδρόμος ("traversing the air").
• In the sense of “airfield”, from aero- + -drome, a suffix formed in analogy with hippodrome, from Ancient Greek.