🇬🇧 Airway meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

An airway is like an invisible road high in the sky that airplanes use to go from one place to another safely. Pilots follow these sky-paths, just like cars follow roads on the ground.

The pilot said our airway was crowded, so we were basically in a flying traffic jam.

On the map, the airway looked straight, but my ears still popped like surprise popcorn.

The sky has an airway for planes, but my paper airplane made its own very confused route.

The superhero asked air traffic control, "Which airway should I use to get to the villain’s hideout fastest?"

I asked the pilot if there was a scenic airway for extra cloud-watching and bird-waving.

The storm split clouds; the pilot hugged a thin airway. The airway glowed on her map as another plane followed the airway, a safe line through gray. Control towers cleared the airway one by one. She breathed; the plane stayed on the airway, then saw blue and eased down, relief spilling as ground lights welcomed her.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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