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Airfield vs Airport - What's the difference?

airfield | airport |

Airport is a related term of airfield.



As nouns the difference between airfield and airport

is that airfield is a place where airplanes can take off and land but unlike an airport must not necessarily have terminals or paved runways while airport is an airfield (a place where airplanes can take off and land), including one or more runways and one or more passenger terminals.

airfield

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A place where airplanes can take off and land but unlike an airport must not necessarily have terminals or paved runways.

    • airport

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia airport) (en noun)
  • An airfield (a place where airplanes can take off and land), including one or more runways and one or more passenger terminals.

    • Related terms

    * aerodrome * airfield * airbase