Airship Definition

ârshĭp
airships
noun
airships
A self-propelled lighter-than-air craft with directional control surfaces.
American Heritage

Any self-propelled, lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered; dirigible.

Webster's New World

A lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as steered.

Airships are posited to be cheaper to operate over time than fixed-wing aircraft, but as there are no large fleets, this is hard to prove in practice.
Wiktionary
(informal) Any aircraft.
On weekends, I liked to spend my time at the airport watching the various airships take off and land.
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Other Word Forms of Airship

Noun

Singular:
airship
Plural:
airships

Airship Sentence Examples

  • The airship factory is situated on Walney which is connected with the mainland by a bridge with an opening span of 120 ft.

  • You can also buy it after you get an airship.

  • Other branches represented in Great Britain by the Royal Engineers are known in Germany by the title communication troops, and comprise railway, telegraph and airship and balloon battalions.

  • Then far away in the south he saw a great Asiatic airship going eastward.

  • The plan is to use the airship to deliver the orders to the man's foreign contacts.

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