airstrip

English

Etymology

From air +‎ strip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛə(ɹ)stɹɪp/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Noun

airstrip (plural airstrips)

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.

Translations

primitive aircraft landing field

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: landingsbane (da) c
• Finnish: lentopaikka (fi); korpikenttä (fi) (informal)
• French: piste d’atterrissage (fr) f
• German: Landepiste (de) f
• Indonesian: bandar udara perintis
• Irish: aerstiall f
• Italian: pista di atterraggio f
• Latin: aeroportello
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flystripe m or f

  Nynorsk: flystripe f

• Polish: pas startowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: pista de pouso f
• Spanish: pista de aterrizaje f
• Swedish: landningsbana (sv) c, flygplats (sv) c, flygfält (sv) n

See also

• airfield
• airpark
• airport
• landing strip