airfield
(ˈɛəfiːld)
[f. air- III + field n.]
An area of land where aircraft are accommodated and maintained and may take off or land.
| 1935 Aero Digest May 13/3 Officials..have a fundamentally clear conception of how airfield projects ought to be handled. 1936 Baltimore Sun 18 May 7/8 All airfields in Virginia, with one or two exceptions, are below the standard sizes recommended by the Department of Commerce. 1940 B. Ward Russian Foreign Policy 30 The Baltic States..‘acquiesced’ in the cession of islands, the leasing of harbours and airfields. 1943 W. S. Churchill Second World War (1952) V. 566 For ‘aerodrome’ either ‘airfield’ or ‘airport’ [should be used]. The expression ‘airdrome’ should not be used by us. |