air base
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3.3
- noun
- /ɛr beɪs/
- Specialized
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base aérea
- In 1991, DoD abandoned a volcano-ravaged Philippine air base and vacated its naval facilities there by December 1992.
- naval air base
- U.S. air base
But you're there and then you're flying in to an air base just outside of Baghdad.
- But you're there and then you're flying in to an air base just outside of Baghdad.
- I did grow up on Yokota Air Base in Tokyo, where my stepfather was stationed.
- And I waited another week and then they came and got me and took me to an air base.
- Going back this week, my buddy who's on the Thunderbirds, he's the commander of Aviano, the air base there.
- When it was surrounded, the air base was surrounded with Marines.
- And our job there was this very large air base called Fobshank Ford Operations Base Shank.
- Trump at dinner with Xi Jinping at Mar A Lago, sends missiles to a Syrian air base with Russian soldiers on it.
- And it was being, it was their air base was being used as a staging place to fly goods into Afghanistan.
Examples
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In Kyrgyzstan, President Kurmanbek Bakiyev broke a promise to Moscow to close the U.S. air base there.
Academic text (2011) -
This must be the hospital in the American air base in Thule.
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Took off from the air base 20 minutes ago.
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If you hear anything, you can get me at the air base.
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In the middle of a North Korean air base.
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What is the closest air base to the Holiday Express?
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I have to get back to the air base before Koskov leaves.
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And in Afghanistan, the target was the U.S. air base at Bagram.
Academic text (2007) -
They're from the Naval Air base at Alameda.
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The drones are to operate out of an air base in Italy.
Synonyms
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1.0
A place where planes take off and land and people get on and off them
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2.2
A place where soldiers or an organization live and work
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3.8
An area of land where planes take off and land without full airport services
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3.7
A base or group of buildings where soldiers live and work
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4.2
A place where people plan and start activities like a military camp or company office
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4.5
A military airfield used by an air force
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4.2
A military base where planes are kept, fixed, and flown
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8.4
An airport with a runway, control tower, and hangars for planes
A place where planes take off and land that has a control tower and buildings for passengers and cargo
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a military facility for aircraft' is directly and compositionally derived from 'air' (relating to aviation/aircraft) + 'base' (a place serving as an operations station). This noun–noun compounding pattern is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Air base shows a simple picture: a base or home for things of the air, that is, for aircraft. So air base means a military place where planes are kept, repaired, and sent on missions.