aeroplane

Meanings

Noun

• A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.
• An airfoil.
• Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. Also called planes.

Verb

• To fly in an aeroplane.
• To transport by aeroplane.

Origin

• From French aéroplane, from Ancient Greek ἀερόπλανος ("wandering in air"), from ἀήρ + πλάνος. First used by Joseph Pline in an 1855 patent.;