Like the 'aircraft' and 'aeroplane' definitions.
Earlier connotations were 'field'...and originally they were...all over grass 'fields'..eg Para field, on the flats below the Para Hills.
I remember it well in the good old Tiggie days ! Start up, warm up, taxy out, look for the green light and take off into wind across the greensward in winter or the dusty yellow remnants in summer.
And for the Yanks....Higgins Field...Bamaga WW2. Hoevet Field YMBA WW2
And Horn Island Drome , title on the old WW2 island diagram.
At Iron Range, were 'strips',... Claudie 1 &2, and Gordon's. ( After a local gold miner)