A general term for any aircraft or flying machine designed for air travel.
From 'aero-' (air) combined with 'craft' (from Old English cræft, meaning skill or a made object). An early aviation-era term that competed with 'aircraft' but never became standard.
Words like 'aerocraft' show how aviation language was still being invented in the early 1900s—'aircraft' ultimately won out because it was shorter and cleaner, but other '-craft' combinations like 'spacecraft' and 'hovercraft' proved the formula worked perfectly.
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