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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
Noun
a large cylindrical rigid German airship of the early 20th century [after Count von Zeppelin, its designer]
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Noun1.ZeppelinZeppelin - German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917)
2.Zeppelinzeppelin - a large rigid dirigible designed to carry passengers or bombs


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