'drome

See also: drome, Drôme, and -drome

English

Etymology

A shortening of aerodrome.

Noun

'drome (plural 'dromes)

1. (informal) An aerodrome.
   • 1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 11:

     It had been located and used as a base and 'drome by the Mackay Aerial Expedition a few months previously[.]

   • 1959, Dorothy Hewett, Bobbin Up, page 82:

     A Super Constellation warmed its engines up at Mascot 'drome.

Anagrams

• Domer, dermo, dermo-, moder, mored