airship
a self-propelled, lighter-than-air aircraft with means of controlling the direction of flight; dirigible.
Origin of airship
1- Compare blimp.
Words Nearby airship
Other definitions for air-ship (2 of 2)
to send or ship via aircraft: to air-ship machine parts overseas.
Origin of air-ship
2Other words from air-ship
- air-ship·pa·ble, adjective
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How to use airship in a sentence
The airship had become charged with static as a result of an electrical storm.
Did Static Electricity Spark the Hindenburg Explosion? | Justin Green | March 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe fire appeared on the tail of the airship, igniting the leaking hydrogen.
Did Static Electricity Spark the Hindenburg Explosion? | Justin Green | March 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn tax-paying circles it is said that the fashionable thing will be to start now and let the airship overtake you if it can.
They made a cluster of flashing color whose center point was a tiny airship, a speedster, a gay little craft.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931 | VariousThen, for the second time, the stricken airship blundered over us, this time in the direction of the sea.
The Romance of His Life | Mary Cholmondeley
Instantly, the proposition filled the air with airship talk.
On the Edge of the Arctic | Harry Lincoln SaylerThe airship had been resting upon what seemed to be a little ridge.
On the Edge of the Arctic | Harry Lincoln Sayler
British Dictionary definitions for airship
/ (ˈɛəˌʃɪp) /
a lighter-than-air self-propelled craft: Also called: dirigible, zeppelin
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