Zeppelin

See also: zeppelin

English

Alternative forms

• zeppelin

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zeppelin. Named after Ferdinand von Zeppelin, whose surname derives from the German town name Zepelin. Doublet of cepelinas.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈzɛ.pə.lɪn/
• Hyphenation: Zep‧pe‧lin

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

USS Los Angeles, a Zeppelin (in both the broad and strict senses)

Zeppelin (plural Zeppelins)

1. (aviation) A type of large dirigible rigid airship of the early 20th century, built by the German Luftschiffbau Zeppelin and designed to carry passengers or bombs.
2. (aviation, by extension, informal) A rigid airship dirigible, not restricted to Germany nor the early 20th century.
3. (slang, rare) The penis.
   • 2022, Seaward Dracula, D. Stroker, sVck

     She shoved him back on the bed, but fear had turned his zeppelin into a deflated balloon, and try as she might, she couldn't blow any air into it.

Synonyms

• rigid
• rigid airship
• dirigible

Hypernyms

• airship
• dirigible

Derived terms

• go down like a lead zeppelin
• go over like a lead zeppelin
• zeppelin bend
• zeppelin mail
• Zeppelin stamp

 

Translations

a type of large German dirigible airship of the early 20th century

• Asturian: zepelín (ast) m
• Catalan: zepelí m
• Cherokee: ᎠᎳᏫᏗᏍᎩ (alawidisgi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 齊柏林飛船 / 齐柏林飞船 (qíbólín fēichuán), 硬式飛船 / 硬式飞船 (yìngshì fēichuán)

• Esperanto: zepelino
• Estonian: tsepeliin
• Finnish: zeppeliini (fi)
• French: zeppelin (fr) m
• Galician: cepelín m
• German: Zeppelin (de) m
• Greek: αερόπλοιο (el) n (aeróploio)
• Hungarian: zeppelin (hu)
• Japanese: ツェッペリン (tsepperin)
• Korean: 체펠린 (chepellin)
• Lithuanian: cepelinas (lt) m
• Macedonian: цепели́н m (cepelín)
• Portuguese: zepelim (pt) m
• Romanian: zepelin n
• Russian: цеппели́н (ru) m (ceppelín), дирижа́бль (ru) m (dirižáblʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: дирижа̀бл m, цепелин m

  Roman: dirižàbl (sh) m, cepelin (sh) m

• Spanish: dirigible (es) m, zepelín (es) m, zépelin m
• Swedish: zeppelinare (sv) c
• Tagalog: sepelin
• Turkish: zeplin (tr), hava gemisi (tr)
• Ukrainian: цепелі́н (uk) m (cepelín), дирижа́бль m (dyryžáblʹ)

Proper noun

Zeppelin

1. A German manufacturing company, famed for building the Zeppelin airships.
2. Abbreviation of Led Zeppelin.

See also

• airship
• balloon
• barrage balloon
• blimp
• dirigible
• hot air balloon

References

• (penis): Tony Thorne (2014) “zeppelin”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury

German

Etymology

Named after Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sɛpəliːn/

• Audio (Austria):

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Zeppelin m or (rare) n (strong, genitive Zeppelins, plural Zeppeline)

1. (strictly) rigid airship, Zeppelin
2. (in common usage) any airship

   Synonym: Luftschiff

Declension

Declension of Zeppelin [masculine // neuter (rare), strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der, das	Zeppelin	die	Zeppeline
genitive	eines	des	Zeppelins	der	Zeppeline
dative	einem	dem	Zeppelin	den	Zeppelinen
accusative	einen, ein	den, das	Zeppelin	die	Zeppeline