airway

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines)
noun a designated route followed by airplanes in flying from one airport to another
noun the passages through which air enters and leaves the body

From air + way.

Chief interests: Establishing National Commercial Airways; writing posthumous novel. — The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
Not through the ordinary open airways, but in the National Length, and coded. — Tarrano the Conqueror, Ray Cummings
Before--well, in trying to treat an acutely injured patient, you have to establish an airway, adequate ventilation and you have to establish adequate circulation. — Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, United States. Warren Commission

air passage, air duct

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