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Princeton's WordNet

  1. widebody aircraft, wide-body aircraft, wide-body, twin-aisle airplanenoun

    a commercial airliner with two aisles

Wiktionary

  1. wide-bodynoun

    An airliner capable of seating six or more passengers in a single row of economy seating.

    The world airline fleet of long-range aircraft consists almost entirely of wide-bodies.

  2. Etymology: wide + body

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  1. wide-body

    Wide-body refers to a type of large aircraft, vehicle, or other similar structures that have two passenger aisles, also known as a twin-aisle aircraft. It is wider and has more interior space compared to a narrow-body, single-aisle structure. This term is commonly used in the aviation industry.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wide-body in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wide-body in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of wide-body in a Sentence

  1. Wang Shusheng:

    Next we would like to use wide-body aircraft to fly to destinations that exempt visa requirement for the Chinese.

  2. Stephanie Faulk:

    As the capabilities of narrow-body airplanes grow, they are taking on long-haul missions – flying increasingly further, the result is an inherent desire for increased comfort and features equivalent to wide-body airplanes.

  3. Olivier Andries:

    No decision was taken to discontinue the original A350, most senior executives at the time were against the Extra-Wide Body. Even in the summer of 2006 the decision was not secure.

  4. Tom Haines:

    The pilot shortage situation is really becoming dire, there are airliners, multi-hundred-million dollar wide body airliners in some parts of the world sitting idle because there aren’t enough pilots to fly them.

  5. Lockheed Martin:

    Most of the thrust from the C-5 engine comes from that giant fan in the front. It's very fuel-efficient, the 747, DC-10, L-1011 — all the wide-body airliners — came almost on the heels of this.


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