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airship
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As a noun, airship means a lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as steered. As a verb, it means transport goods by aircraft.
Meanings of airship
5 meaningsnoun
aviationA 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.”
USpolicingaviationA police air unit, a police helicopter
aviationinformalAny aircraft.
“On weekends, I liked to spend my time at the airport watching the various airships take off and land.”
UKpejorativemostly in the pluralA high ranking official of the RAF, viewed as arrogant and distant.
verb
To transport goods by aircraft.
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).