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Dirigible vs Zeppelin - What's the difference?

dirigible | zeppelin |

Zeppelin is a hypernym of dirigible.



As nouns the difference between dirigible and zeppelin

is that dirigible is a self-propelled airship that can be steered while zeppelin is a type of large German dirigible airship of the early 20th century designed to carry passengers or bombs.

As an adjective dirigible

is steerable.

As a proper noun Zeppelin is

a German manufacturing company, famed for building the zeppelin airships.

dirigible

English

(wikipedia dirigible)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A self-propelled airship that can be steered

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • steerable

    • See also

    * airship * balloon * barrage balloon * blimp * zeppelin, Zeppelin * ----

    zeppelin

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Zeppelin

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of large German dirigible airship of the early 20th century designed to carry passengers or bombs.

    • Synonyms

    * rigid airship

    Hypernyms

    * airship * dirigible

    See also

    (wikipedia zeppelin) * barrage balloon * blimp * hot air balloon English eponyms English words with optional capitalisation ----