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Zeppelin

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Zep·pe·lin  (zp-ln, zpln, tsp-ln), Count Ferdinand von 1838-1917.
German inventor who designed and manufactured the first motorized, rigid-frame dirigible balloon (1900).
zep·pe·lin also Zep·pe·lin  (zp-ln)
n.
A rigid airship having a long cylindrical body supported by internal gas cells.
[After Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin.]
zeppelin [ˈzɛpəlɪn]
n
(Engineering / Aeronautics) (sometimes capital) a large cylindrical rigid airship built from 1900 to carry passengers, and used in World War I for bombing and reconnaissance
[named after Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838-1917), German aeronautical pioneer, designer and manufacturer of airships]
Zeppelin (German) [ˈtsɛpəliːn]
n
(Biographies / Zeppelin, Ferdinand von, Count (1838-1917) M, German, TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: aeronautical pioneer, TECHNOLOGY: airship builder) Count Ferdinand von (ˈfɛrdinant fɔn). 1838-1917, German aeronautical pioneer, who designed and manufactured airships (zeppelins)
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Noun1.Zeppelin - German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917)Zeppelin - German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917)
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
2.Zeppelin - a large rigid dirigible designed to carry passengers or bombszeppelin - a large rigid dirigible designed to carry passengers or bombs
Graf Zeppelin
Translations
zeppelin [ˈzeplɪn] N → zepelín m
zeppelin
n → Zeppelin m
zeppelin [ˈzɛp/əlɪn] n → zeppelin m inv
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For the great airships with which Germany attacked New York in her last gigantic effort for world supremacy--before humanity realized that world supremacy was a dream--were the lineal descendants of the Zeppelin airship that flew over Lake Constance in 1906, and of the Lebaudy navigables that made their memorable excursions over Paris in 1907 and 1908.
The War in the Air by Wells, H.G. View in context
 
 
 
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