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Definition of "planeload" []

  • The load that an airplane is capable of carrying. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "planeload" in a sentence
  • "Which makes the news, a single automobile death or a planeload of people dead?"
  • "Precisely at noon, just as Reagan began to recite the oath of office, the planeload of Americans was permitted to take off."
  • "And so the prime minister will follow the example of Merkel when he lands in South Africa on Monday morning with a planeload of 25 British business leaders."
Words like "planeload"
English words derived from: load (noun)
train-load