air base

See also: airbase

English

Alternative forms

• airbase

Etymology

From air +‎ base.

Noun

air base (plural air bases)

1. (military) A military airport, providing housing and support for aircraft and personnel.
   • 1968, Lyman P. Van Slyke, editor, The Chinese Communist Movement: A Report of the United States War Department, July 1945‎^[1], Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 90:

     American officers have observed how Chinese troops stationed at American air bases have frequently refused to shoot at Japanese raiding planes. Asked by an American officer for the reason for this behavior, a Chinese officer at Lao-ho-k’ou air base in Hupeh answered (November 1944): “Well you see, if we shot down a Jap plane, the Japs would be angry and would take revenge and return and bomb the city and do a lot of damage.”

Hyponyms

• air force base (AFB)
• air force station (AFS)
• naval air station (NAS)

Related terms

• airdrome, aerodrome (sometimes synonymous)
• airfreight
• airpower

 

Translations

military airport

• Arabic: قَاعِدَة جَوِّيَّة f (qāʕida jawwiyya)
• Basque: aire-basea, hegazkin-base
• Belarusian: авіяба́за f (avijabáza)
• Bulgarian: възду́шна ба́за f (vǎzdúšna báza)
• Catalan: base aèria f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軍用機場／军用机场 (jūnyòng jīchǎng), 空軍基地／空军基地 (zh) (kōngjūn jīdì)

• Czech: letecká základna f
• Danish: luftbase c, flyvestation (da) c, flyvebase (da) c
• Dutch: vliegbasis (nl) f, vliegkamp m
• Finnish: lentotukikohta (fi)
• French: base aérienne (fr) f
• Galician: base aérea (gl) f
• Georgian: ავიაბაზა (aviabaza)
• German: Luftstützpunkt m, Militärflugplatz (de) m
• Greek: αεροπορική βάση (el) f (aeroporikí vási)
• Hebrew: בְּסִיס טִיסָה m (b'sís tisá), בָּסִיס אֲוִירִי m (b'sís avirí)
• Indonesian: pangkalan udara
• Irish: aerionad m
• Italian: base aerea f
• Japanese: 空軍基地 (くうぐんきち, kūgun kichi), 軍用飛行場 (ぐんようひこうじょう, gun'yō hikōjō)
• Kazakh: әуе базасы (äue bazasy)
• Korean: 군용비행장(軍用飛行場) (gunyongbihaengjang), 공군 기지(空軍基地) (gonggun giji)
• Kyrgyz: авиабаза (ky) (aviabaza)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: агаарын бааз (agaaryn baaz)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flystasjon m

  Nynorsk: flystasjon m

• Persian: پایگاه هوایی (pây-gâh-e havâyi)
• Polish: baza lotnicza f
• Portuguese: base aérea f
• Romanian: bază aeriană (ro) f
• Russian: авиаба́за (ru) f (aviabáza), авиацио́нная ба́за f (aviaciónnaja báza), АБ (ru) f (AB)
• Slovak: letecká základňa f
• Slovene: letalska baza f
• Spanish: base aérea f
• Swedish: flygbas c
• Turkish: hava üssü (tr)
• Ukrainian: авіаба́за (uk) f (aviabáza)
• Uzbek: aviabaza (uz)

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