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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. a lighter-than-air self-propelled craft Also calleddirigiblezeppelin
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of airship1

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

The tilt-rotor allows the airship to operate closer to a helicopter during takeoff and landing.

A number of companies have emerged in recent years aiming to resurrect the airship, an early technology that was abandoned in favor of airplanes and helicopters.

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.

From Ozy

It takes place on an airship, with new tasks and environments including a kitchen.

Later, parked in the yard by the barn, it becomes an ocean explorer, an airship, a planetary rover.

The airship had become charged with static as a result of an electrical storm.

The fire appeared on the tail of the airship, igniting the leaking hydrogen.

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.

They made a cluster of flashing color whose center point was a tiny airship, a speedster, a gay little craft.

Then, for the second time, the stricken airship blundered over us, this time in the direction of the sea.

Instantly, the proposition filled the air with airship talk.

The airship had been resting upon what seemed to be a little ridge.

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