airship
See also: air ship
English
Etymology
air + ship
Noun
airship (plural airships)
- 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.
- (informal) Any aircraft.
- On weekends, I liked to spend my time at the airport watching the various airships take off and land.
Translations
self-propelled lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered — see dirigible
Verb
airship (third-person singular simple present airships, present participle airshipping, simple past and past participle airshipped)
- To transport goods by aircraft.
See also
- balloon
- barrage balloon
- blimp
- dirigible
- zeppelin, Zeppelin