AIRSHIP

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A steerable self-propelled aircraft

Synonyms:

airship; dirigible

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("airship" is a kind of...):

lighter-than-air craft (aircraft supported by its own buoyancy)

Meronyms (parts of "airship"):

car; gondola (the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "airship"):

barrage balloon (an elongated tethered balloon or blimp with cables or net suspended from it to deter enemy planes that are flying low)

blimp; sausage; sausage balloon (a small nonrigid airship used for observation or as a barrage balloon)

Instance hyponyms:

Graf Zeppelin; zeppelin (a large rigid dirigible designed to carry passengers or bombs)