landing field

noun

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: a field where aircraft may land and take off

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Across the street from the resort was the Chicagoland Airport, once a satellite landing field during World War II for Glenview Naval Air Station. — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025 Van Zandt purchased 278 acres of cotton fields east of 24th Street and south of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks and transformed them into a landing field. — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2024

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First Known Use

circa 1920, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of landing field was circa 1920

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landing field

noun
: a field where aircraft may land and take off

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