ocean liner

noun

1. an oceangoing passenger ship, operating either as one unit of a regular scheduled service or as a cruise ship.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ocean liner¹

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

Example Sentences

"You enjoyed being on a huge ocean liner like that, and the life it afforded while you were on there," Larter, now 85, tells BBC Sport.

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He was as enthused about the set-free processes of making “Avatar” as he had been about building an ocean liner for “Titanic.”

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But as happened elsewhere in the country, much of L.A.’s public German community went to ground after May 1915, when a German U-boat sank the British ocean liner Lusitania.

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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.

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The pool’s mechanical room looks like the boiler room of an ocean liner — with giant tanks that purify pool water and another system that stabilizes the temperature.

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Related Words

• cruise ship 
• liner 
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