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concorde

/kon-kawrd, kong-, kon-kawrd, kong-/US // ˈkɒn kɔrd, ˌkɒŋ-, kɒnˈkɔrd, kɒŋ- //UK // (ˈkɒnkɔːd, ˈkɒŋ-) //

协和,协和广场,协奏曲,协约国

Definitions

  1. 1

    Trademark.

    • : a supersonic passenger aircraft manufactured and operated jointly by England and France.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The Concorde never became really economical, and certainly never became affordable to a wide audience, and ultimately ended up getting canceled.

  • The final flight of British Airways’ Concorde took place in October 2003, going from New York to London in three and a half hours.

  • The other vision bets on a fleet of a few dozen supersonic airliners jetting well-heeled travelers from one global city to another, a dream that many thought died with the Concorde some 20 years ago.

  • After years of negotiations and a tough journey, the obelisk was planted at the Place de la Concorde.

  • In 1994 she redesigned the interiors of the supersonic Concorde for Air France.

  • I left the New York Post in 1998 and boarded the morning Concorde to London, bound for the London Sun.

  • Their accelerating crack-up was like a sonic boom: You heard it only after the Concorde was gone.

  • He dismissed his servants, and, with his portfolio under his arm, set forth across the Pont de la Concorde.

  • There the first break in the straight line from the Place de la Concorde occurs.

  • An engineer regiment was fighting the water in the Place de la Concorde by the light of acetylene lamps.

  • Then one day, in the sunny desert of the Place de la Concorde, he came on a more cheering sight.

  • Immediately a familiar scene appeared upon the sheet, a colored photograph of the Place de la Concorde.