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airfarer

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Etymology

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From air +‎ farer, modelled after seafarer, wayfarer, etc.

Noun

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airfarer (plural airfarers)

  1. One who travels by air.
    • 1948, Sir Francis Tuker, The Pattern of War, page 109:
      The first is that a string of small lands such as Great Britain, the Faroes, Iceland, is an isthmus connecting Europe with North America, for the short strips of sea between them are only bits of desert to an airfarer.