Other forms: airliners
An airliner is a large aircraft that carries fare-paying passengers. A wide-body airliner, board the airliner, the airliner landed.
The liner in it comes from shipping, where a liner was a vessel on a scheduled line rather than a tramp taking whatever cargo it found — and that is still the distinction: an airliner flies a published schedule.
1nounairlinerA large aircraft that carries fare-paying passengers.
“A huge airliner roared overhead as it came in to land.”
airliner is an aircraft.
Air plus liner, from the shipping term for a vessel working a scheduled line.
From air + liner.
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