air base

noun

: a military base chiefly for the operation of aircraft

Examples of air base in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web His family settled in Tachikawa, the site of a military air base outside Tokyo. Tim Page, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024 Iran retaliated with a ballistic missile attack on al-Asad air base in western Iraq where more than 100 U.S. troops suffered traumatic brain injuries. USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2024 Al-Asad is a large air base in western Iraq where U.S. troops have trained Iraqi security forces and now coordinate operations to counter the militant Islamic State group. Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Jan. 2024 In the first days of 2020, Iran fired a barrage of missiles at an Iraqi air base housing U.S. troops. Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024 The United States also has about 2,000 troops stationed at an air base in Azraq, Jordan, as well as Special Operations forces and military trainers. Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024 One drone packed with explosives landed on a barracks at the Erbil air base in Iraq on Oct. 25. Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2024 This became ever more the case in 2009 when former President Rafael Correa closed down the U.S. air base in Manta, from where American AWAC surveillance planes had been monitoring and trying to disrupt drug trafficking. Eduardo Gamarra, The Conversation, 12 Jan. 2024 In another part of Iraq, U.S. forces at the al-Harir air base destroyed a drone. Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1913, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of air base was in 1913

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“Air base.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air%20base. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

air base

noun
: a base of operations for military aircraft

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