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airship
[ air-ship ]
noun
- a self-propelled, lighter-than-air aircraft with means of controlling the direction of flight; dirigible.
airship
/ ˈɛəˌʃɪp /
noun
- a lighter-than-air self-propelled craft Also calleddirigiblezeppelin
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
American Walter Wellman was the first to try to reach the North Pole by airship.
Troy says the production for the game's sets was lavish, with crews building accurate representations of boats, airships and other locations on giant motion-capture stages.
Celmins’ 1968 drawings of old black-and-white photographs torn from history books — a 1930s zeppelin airship, Hiroshima’s nearly obliterated 1945 landscape — begin with a sheet of paper prepared with a ground of snow-white acrylic.
“If we had the airships there sooner, they could have … just offloaded patients right into the airships to go to the trauma center.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken cancelled a trip to China, calling the airship's presence an "irresponsible act".
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