superliner
Americannoun
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an ocean liner of relatively great size or speed.
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a railroad car or train providing express service and usually deluxe passenger accommodations.
Etymology
Origin of superliner
Example Sentences
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The latest P&O "superliner" Britannia has been officially named by the Queen but what happens after cruise liners are past their sell-by date?
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2015
On May 7, 1915, the four-funneled, 787-foot Cunard superliner, on a run from New York to Liverpool, encountered a German submarine, the U-20, about 11 miles off the coast of Ireland.
From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2015
On July 5, 1991, my group leaves Chicago on a double-decker superliner train for L.A.
From Scientific American • Aug. 2, 2012
At the time, he said he wanted the antiques to furnish luxury salons aboard the liner France, which he had bought with the intention at first of turning the mothballed superliner into a floating casino.
From Time Magazine Archive
Windjammers in the old movies might have a man lashed to the wheel whose muscle power turned the rudder, but, believe me, a big superliner doesn’t.
From The Knights of Arthur by Pohl, Frederik
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