drome

1. 1.

   an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo

   Synonymsairportairdromeaerodrome

   Broaderairfield

   NarrowerheliportKennedy

   Partsairdockair terminalcontrol tower

Other forms of drome

plural

dromes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about drome

What does drome mean?

drome means "an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo".

How many syllables are in drome?

drome has 1 syllable: drome.

What is another word for drome?

Close synonyms include airport, airdrome, aerodrome. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drome a common word?

drome is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.