airship
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of airship
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As the airship made its final approach, at about 7:15 that evening, it was running some 12 hours late.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The indicator is named after the German passenger airship that was involved in a historic disaster in 1937.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026
An airship crashes into the ocean with three golfers apparently oblivious as they hole out on a seaside course.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
Celmins’ 1968 drawings of old black-and-white photographs torn from history books — a 1930s zeppelin airship, Hiroshima’s nearly obliterated 1945 landscape — begin with a sheet of paper prepared with a ground of snow-white acrylic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024
Then even the static cuts out, and the silence in the headphones feels like something massive moving through space, a ghostly airship slowly descending.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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