Other forms: airfields
An airfield is an open area where aircraft take off and land. A grass airfield, a disused airfield, the airfield perimeter.
The word suggests something smaller and plainer than an airport — no terminal, often grass rather than tarmac. Britain is covered in disused wartime ones, and many an airfield now serves as an industrial estate or a solar farm.
1nounairfieldAn open area where aircraft take off and land.
“The small plane bumped down onto a grass airfield outside the village.”
airfield is a place.
Air plus field, from the early twentieth century, when the first aircraft did in fact use fields.
From air + field.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA