transferred. Applied to various objects that are, or are conceived to be, navigated. a balloon, aircraft, or powered spacecraft.

Originally: any of various aircraft or machines for flying (now rare). Now usually: spec. a dirigible, esp. one having a rigid elongated structure…

(a) a balloonist; an aeronaut; (b) a hot-air balloon, an airship.

A navigable balloon or airship; a dirigible. Now rare (historical).

A dirigible balloon or airship. Also transferred. (Cf. French dirigeable n.)

In full Zeppelin airship. A large German dirigible airship of the early 20th cent., long and cylindrical in shape and with a rigid framework. Also…

An airship, a dirigible.

A dirigible balloon. rare.

= Zeppelin, n. 1.

An airship or hovercraft.