From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdirigibledir‧i‧gi‧ble /ˈdɪrədʒəbəl, dəˈrɪ-/ noun [countable] TTAan airship
Examples from the Corpus
dirigible• Drinking lifted his mood, made him feel like an old-fashioned dirigible, floating over everything.• Above him vast silver dirigibles moved in the morning sky, great black crates strung beneath them.• He studied the dirigibles through a pair of those really amazing computerized binoculars that you see in movies.Origin dirigible (1500-1600) Latin dirigere; → DIRECT1 