airship

[ air-ship ]

/ ˈɛərˌʃɪp /

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noun

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

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Origin of airship

1810–20, for an earlier sense; air¹ + ship¹

Words nearby airship

airscrew, air-sea rescue, air service, air shaft, airshed, airship, air shot, airshow, air shower, airsick, airsickness

Other definitions for airship (2 of 2)

air-ship

[ air-ship ]

/ ˈɛərˌʃɪp /

verb (used with object), air-shipped, air-ship·ping.

to send or ship via aircraft: to air-ship machine parts overseas.

Origin of air-ship

First recorded in 1950–1955

OTHER WORDS FROM air-ship

air-ship·pa·ble, adjective

How to use airship in a sentence

Made from a converted airship hangar and boasting a capacity of up to 8,200 visitors per day, it’s the fourth-largest building on the planet by volume.
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It takes place on an airship, with new tasks and environments including a kitchen.
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Later, parked in the yard by the barn, it becomes an ocean explorer, an airship, a planetary rover.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin also started an airship company.
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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|DAILY BEAST
The fire appeared on the tail of the airship, igniting the leaking hydrogen.
Did Static Electricity Spark the Hindenburg Explosion?|Justin Green|March 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In tax-paying circles it is said that the fashionable thing will be to start now and let the airship overtake you if it can.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 28, 1920|Various
They made a cluster of flashing color whose center point was a tiny airship, a speedster, a gay little craft.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931|Various
Then, for the second time, the stricken airship blundered over us, this time in the direction of the sea.
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Instantly, the proposition filled the air with airship talk.
On the Edge of the Arctic|Harry Lincoln Sayler
The 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

airship

/ (ˈɛəˌʃɪp) /

noun

a lighter-than-air self-propelled craftAlso called: dirigible, zeppelin

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airship

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