ocean liner
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ocean liner
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
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In 1939, the German ocean liner, which was carrying Jewish refugees, was turned away by the United States.
From Salon • Jun. 28, 2026
She has written Page One WSJ features on nuclear pacemakers, a damaged model of the Queen Mary ocean liner and abandoned Redbox movie vending machines.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 27, 2026
That didn’t rescue the Pike, nor did another new name for the area: Queen Park, after the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary, permanently anchored on the Long Beach landscape.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2025
Band leader Wallace Hartley and his fellow musicians were all killed along with more than 1,500 others after the ocean liner hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic in 1912.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2025
Aunt Pearl sailed serenely past the nationalist rally, the three girls clustered around her like starched white tugboats escorting a blue cotton ocean liner.
From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte
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