wide-body

1. 1.

   a commercial airliner with two aisles

   Synonymswidebody aircraftwide-body aircrafttwin-aisle airplane

   Broaderairliner

Questions about wide-body

What does wide-body mean?

wide-body means "a commercial airliner with two aisles".

How many syllables are in wide-body?

wide-body has 4 syllables: wi-de--bo-dy. The stress falls on "de-".

What is another word for wide-body?

Close synonyms include widebody aircraft, wide-body aircraft, twin-aisle airplane. 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 wide-body a common word?

wide-body 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.