Thesaurus results for COPTER

copter

noun

ˈkäp-tər

Definition of copter

as in helicopter

a vehicle for traveling through the air that obtains its lift from rotors which spin horizontally copters from the local TV stations made the obligatory reports on the bumper-to-bumper traffic at the start of the holiday weekend

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Recent Examples of copter Carroll was eventually flown to a hospital by a medical copter. — Logan Smith, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026 The copter was operated by Airborne Aviation, which does sightseeing tours of Kauai’s canyons, shoreline and waterfalls. — Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2026 The Easter Bunny will fly in via copter, then hand out eggs to children. — Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026 These copters, presumably built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will carry cameras and ground-penetrating radars to scan the Martian terrain for subsurface water ice. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 25 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for copter

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Noun

Soar over the landscape by helicopter, touching down in some of the country’s most secluded locations, with not another soul in sight.

— Gwen Nicol, Travel + Leisure, 29 Aug. 2026
Nepal’s disaster-management authority said 3,253 people had been airlifted by helicopter from the disaster area.

— Niranjan Shrestha, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of helicopter

Noun

Christopher Morel hit a chopper to third base, but Hamilton’s throw was off target.

— Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026
The collision at Carlisle Airport in Cumberland County involved a Cessna 150 and a Bell 407 chopper, the Federal Aviation Administration said.

— Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026

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