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dirigible

adj · noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈdɪɹɪd͡ʒəbəl/
  • US: /ˈdɪɹ.ə.d͡ʒə.bəl/
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1

adj

Meaning 1

steerable

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A self-propelled airship that can be steered.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adjective satellite

Meaning 3

capable of being steered or directed

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: steerable

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

a steerable self-propelled aircraft

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: airship

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: lighter-than-air craft

Narrower terms: barrage balloon, blimp, sausage balloon, sausage, zeppelin, Graf Zeppelin

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

91 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: направляем (napravljaem) — steerable
  • French: dirigeable — steerable
  • Ido: direktebla — steerable
  • Italian: dirigibile — steerable
  • Manx: yn-stiurey — steerable
  • Polish: sterowalny — steerable
  • Romanian: dirijabil — steerable
  • Russian: управля́емый (upravljájemyj) — steerable
  • Spanish: dirigible — steerable
  • Afrikaans: lugskip — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Arabic: سَفِينَة هَوَائِيَّة — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Armenian: դիրիժաբլ (dirižabl) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Asturian: dirixible — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Basque: baloi gidatu — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Belarusian: дырыжа́бль (dyryžáblʹ) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Bulgarian: дирижа́бъл (dirižábǎl) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Burmese: လေသင်္ဘော (lesangbhau:) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Catalan: dirigible — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Chinese Mandarin: 飛艇 /飞艇 (fēitǐng) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Chinese Mandarin: 飛船 /飞船 (fēichuán) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Chuvash: дирижабль (dirižablʹ) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Czech: vzducholoď — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Danish: luftskib — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Dutch: luchtschip — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Esperanto: aerŝipo — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Estonian: õhulaev — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Faroese: luftskip — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Finnish: ilmalaiva — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • French: ballon dirigeable — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • French: dirigeable — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Galician: dirixible — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Georgian: დირიჟაბლი (dirižabli) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • German: Luftschiff — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Hebrew: ספינת אוויר — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Hebrew: סְפִינַת אֲוִיר (sfinát avír) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Hungarian: kormányozható léghajó — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Hungarian: léghajó — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Icelandic: loftskip — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Ido: aeronavo — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Ido: direkteblo — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Indonesian: kapal udara — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Interlingua: dirigibile — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Irish: aerlong — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Italian: aeronave — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Italian: dirigibile — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Japanese: 飛行船 (hikōsen) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Japanese: 軽気球 (keikikyū) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Javanese: palwa anggegana — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Kazakh: дирижабль (dirijabl) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Korean: 기구 (gigu) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Korean: 비행선 (bihaengseon) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Kyrgyz: дирижабль (dirijabl) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Latin: aëria navis — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Latvian: dirižablis — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Lithuanian: dirižablis — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Low German: Luftschipp — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Low German: Luchtschipp — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Macedonian: дирижа́бл (dirižábl) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Malay: kapal udara — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Malayalam: ആകാശക്കപ്പൽ (ākāśakkappal) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Norwegian Bokmål: luftskip — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: luftskip — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Old English: lyftscip — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Persian: کشتی هوایی (kašti-ye havâyi) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Plautdietsch: Loftschepp — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Polish: sterowiec — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Portuguese: dirigível — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Romanian: balon dirijabil — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Romanian: dirijabil — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Russian: дирижа́бль (dirižáblʹ) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Serbo-Croatian: дирижабл — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Serbo-Croatian: зрачни брод — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Serbo-Croatian: dirižabl — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Serbo-Croatian: zračni brod — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Slovak: vzducholoď — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Slovene: zračna ladja — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Spanish: dirigible — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Spanish: globo dirigible — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Swahili: ndegeputo — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Swedish: luftskepp — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Tagalog: barkong panghimpapawid — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Tamil: வான்கப்பல் (vāṉkappal) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Thai: เรือเหาะ (rʉʉa-hɔ̀) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Tibetan: རླུང་གྲུ (rlung gru) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Turkish: hava gemisi — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Ukrainian: дирижа́бль (dyryžáblʹ) — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Urdu: ہواکشتی — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Uzbek: dirijabl — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Vietnamese: điều khiển được — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Vietnamese: khí cầu điều khiển được — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
  • Welsh: awyrlong — a self-propelled airship that can be steered
Real reading context

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