Definition of "aerodrome" []

• Chiefly British An airdrome. (noun)

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• "The location proves the point somewhat, stuck out there in aerodrome country and the Salisbury Plain."
• "The aerodrome was a grass field of about five hundred acres that had been laid out for training in the last war and not much used since; it was grazed by sheep and the farmer had the one small hangar full of haymaking machinery and stuff of that sort."
• "Buxton is a little place in north Tasmania where the aerodrome is a grass field with no runways."