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zeppelin

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zep·pe·lin also Zep·pe·lin  (zp-ln)
n.
A rigid airship having a long cylindrical body supported by internal gas cells.

[After Ferdinand von Count 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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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.
 
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