ocean liner
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ocean liner
An Americanism dating back to 1830–40
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US Navy battleships, aircraft carriers, ocean liners, oil tankers—all sorts of sea vessels were being built there.
From Literature
"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.
From BBC
He was as enthused about the set-free processes of making “Avatar” as he had been about building an ocean liner for “Titanic.”
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.
From Los Angeles Times
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
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