🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

항공료

Pronunciation / Transliteration: hang-gong-ryo

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Airfare/ˈɛrˌfɛər/
nounCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #4500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"성수기에는 항공료가 훨씬 더 비쌉니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The price charged by an airline for passenger transportation.

    "She managed to find a remarkably cheap airfare for her summer vacation to Europe."
  2. 2

    The cost of a ticket for travel by airplane.

    "Airfares tend to rise significantly during the winter holiday season."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word is a compound formed from 'air' (derived from Latin aer, via Greek aer) and 'fare' (from Old English faran, meaning to go or journey). First recorded in the late 19th to early 20th century with the advent of aviation, it originally referred to the cost of traveling by aircraft.

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