Meaning

1 senses
  1. An aircraft landing field, usually with one runway and only basic facilities.

    The outfitter deposited us at a small airstrip out in the bush, promising to pick us up again in a week's time.

    Landepiste

More definitions
  • an airfield without normal airport facilities

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Are there any airstrips in the area?

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  2. They parked the trucks in an abandoned airstrip.

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  3. The report says another airstrip could be ready by the end of this year.

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  4. There was an airstrip across the road decades ago, but few planes ever landed there.

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Translations

6 languages
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By meaning 1
primitive aircraft landing field:

Forms

plural: airstrips
Singularairstrip
Pluralairstrips

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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