airship

[air-ship]

noun

1. a self-propelled, lighter-than-air aircraft with means of controlling the direction of flight; dirigible.

airship

/ ˈɛəˌʃɪp /

noun

1. Also called: dirigible.  zeppelin. a lighter-than-air self-propelled craft

Word History and Origins

Origin of airship¹

1810–20, for an earlier sense; air ¹ + ship ¹

Example Sentences

American Walter Wellman was the first to try to reach the North Pole by airship.

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Troy says the production for the game's sets was lavish, with crews building accurate representations of boats, airships and other locations on giant motion-capture stages.

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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.

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“If we had the airships there sooner, they could have … just offloaded patients right into the airships to go to the trauma center.”

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Secretary of State Antony Blinken cancelled a trip to China, calling the airship's presence an "irresponsible act".

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Related Words

• aircraft 
• airliner 
• cab 
• jet 
• plane 
• ship