helicopter in English: An aircraft with big spinning blades on top that can fly straight up and stay still in the air. (noun)

Translation

An aircraft with big spinning blades on top that can fly straight up and stay still in the air.

Word origin

Coined in French as helicoptere, from Greek helix, meaning spiral, plus pteron, meaning wing: a spiral wing.

Gender

Pluralhelicopters

landed .

Helicopters can land in small places where planes cannot.

climber .

You travel BY helicopter, the same pattern as by car or by plane.

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The spinning blades make a loud, steady sound everyone recognises.

plane

A large machine with wings that flies through the air and carries people.

fly

To move through the air, like a bird or a plane.

pilot

A person who flies a plane or a helicopter.

air

The mix of gases all around us that we breathe and cannot see.

sky

The space high above the earth that you see when you look up, where the sun, clouds, and stars are.

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