airship
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5.6
- noun
- /ˈɛrˌʃɪp/
:
dirigible
- During the festival, the airship glided through the sky, delighting spectators with its size and design.
- a rigid airship
No one has certificated a large, rigid airship in, well, sort of ever.
- No one has certificated a large, rigid airship in, well, sort of ever.
- Smaller planes didn't have wireless systems, so the British built airships of their own.
- But as his hobby, he dreamed of making airships.
- He's really into balloons and and airships.
- That I call to it that there are airships overhead.
- We knew that they had airships, but we didn't know like they brought cars.
Examples
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The Aeroscraft may be a forerunner of hybrid airships that will fill the skies in the future.
Blog text (10) -
As if defying gravity, the mammoth airship seems suspended as it settles towards the earth.
Fiction book (1996) -
What kind of airship is that?
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A hurricane on the day you launch an airship is usually a bad sign, but not this time.
Blog text (17) -
By the time our boat stopped, not even the airship was visible on the horizon.
Fiction book (1999) -
Ground rose up under the airship, climbing toward the summit of the pass.
Fiction book (1998) -
There's a nice shot of the airship over Manhattan.
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Your parents were on a chartered airship from India and it vanished somewhere over the Arabian Sea.
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The British experimented with bigger and sturdier airships throughout the war.
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The huge airship floated gracefully above the city, offering breathtaking views from its gondola.
Synonyms
818
2.5
A machine that flies like an airplane or helicopter
42
8.2
A large airship with a metal frame used to carry people and sometimes bombs in the early 1900s
28
5.7
A small soft flying balloon used to carry cameras or show ads
6
9.9
A long balloon used to watch from the sky with a small cabin under it
4
9.3
A large air vehicle like a balloon that people ride and you can steer
1
8.1
A flying machine like a balloon or airship that floats using a light gas
1
5.9
An aircraft that floats because it is lighter than the air, like a balloon or airship
A long thin bag filled with air used to fly above and watch, often in war
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Etymology
Airship simply joins air and ship, so it literally means a 'ship' that travels in the 'air'. That's why an airship is a large vehicle that floats in the sky and can be steered, like a boat on water.