Other forms: airports
An airport is the place where flights begin and end. Get to the airport, airport security, an airport transfer.
It has a landing side and a terminal side, and everything about the design is about moving people between them. Airports are identified by three-letter IATA codes, which are on every boarding pass and luggage tag. Note aerodrome, the older British word, and airfield, which is smaller; and that airport is a plain compound of air and port, named on the model of a seaport.
1nounairportThe place where flights begin and end.
“We took a taxi to the airport to catch our flight.”
airport is a transport facility.
Air plus port, coined in the 1910s on the model of seaport. The idea that a plane arrives at a port the way a ship does is built into the word.
From air + port. From air + port.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA