airship
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of airship
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Nearly a century after the crash of the Hindenburg airship, the images of towering flames and mangled metal haven’t lost their power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The indicator is named after the German passenger airship that was involved in a historic disaster in 1937.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026
By contrast, when Franglen composed the music for the Wind Traders - a nomadic clan of salesmen, who travel by airship - he could let his imagination run wild.
From BBC ● Dec. 12, 2025
American Walter Wellman was the first to try to reach the North Pole by airship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2024
Lyra was almost more fascinated by this than by the changing landscape below the airship.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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