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

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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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.

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He later wrote the book The Truth About The Titanic, recalling his experience onboard the doomed ocean liner.

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Related Words

• cruise ship 
• liner 
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