Meanings
nounairfarer (plural airfarers)
plural airfarers · alternative air-farer
- One who travels by air.
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.
1948, Sir Francis Tuker, The Pattern of War, page 109
Origin
From air + farer, modelled after seafarer, wayfarer, etc.
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