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dirigible - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

dirigible (plural dirigibles)

  • (aviation) A self-propelled airship that can be steered.
    • ✤ Do you know, Louis, of any great secret military camp where a surprise fleet of dirigibles and flying machines of a new and terrible pattern is being formed by a far-seeing Government as a reserve against the day of Armageddon?1
    • ✤ On the opposite wall, the R101 tragedy is recalled by the airship’s tattered ensign in a glass case, a plaque from the Royal Airship Works and a photograph of the dirigible at her moorings.2
    • ✤ People had time to think up some questions, including reporters who shouted “Are you going to shoot down the balloon?” at President Biden shortly before the dirigible came down.3

Adjective

dirigible (comparative more dirigible, superlative most dirigible)

  • steerable

Etymology

From French dirigeable, from ballon dirigeable (“steerable balloon”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈdɪɹɪd͡ʒəbəl/
  • (US) IPA: /ˈdɪɹ.ə.d͡ʒə.bəl/
  • Audio (US): 🔊

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Footnotes

  1. 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC: ↩

  2. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 101: ↩

  3. 2023 February 4, Katie Rogers, “Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a … Chinese Spy Balloon?”, in The New York Times ‎, →ISSN: ↩

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