airplane

noun

1. (Canada, Philippines, US)A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor.

   “on an airplane”

   “jet airplane”

   “RC airplane”

2. (Canada, Philippines, US, usually)A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings: a fixed-wing aircraft with at least one engine or electric motor.

   “They use airplanes to deliver mail and supplies to the far northern villages.”

3. Any of various small flyable objects that are notionally comparable to such aircraft but aren't powered.

   “toy airplane”

   “paper airplane”

4. (Canada, Philippines, US)A game to encourage small children to eat, in which the parent or carer pretends that a spoonful of food is an aircraft flying into the child's mouth; the spoonful itself.

   “Near-synonym: choo-choo train”

   “Here comes the airplane! Open wide!”

   “So, he'd take a spoon and he'd start playing airplane, circling the spoon around in the air until it was ready to land in the runway of my mouth.”

   “Willis wondered what this fellow wanted to do, spoon feed him? Play airplane?”

   “For instance, Jan has taken to playing airplane with the spoon to get Charley to attend to the spoon and want to take it into his mouth.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To fly in an aeroplane.
2. (transitive)To transport by aeroplane.