zeppelinisthttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zeppelinist_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_useZeppelinist, n.
Revised 2014

Zeppelinistnoun

  1. 1912–
    A member of the crew of a Zeppelin.
    1. 1912
      Mr Mueller may be considered a veteran Zeppelinist, since he was in the employ of Count Zeppelin for seven months while the inventor was perfecting his ship.
      Sunday St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 29 December (Magazine) 2/4
    2. 1915
      The Kaiser will reward his aviators or Zeppelinists, whichever they may be, with Iron Crosses.
      Victoria (British Columbia) Daily Times 20 January 4/1
    3. 1937
      The demons who drove and dealt death cared as little for us as the earlier Zeppelinists cared.
      F. Morison, War on Great Cities iv. 127
    4. 2006
      Through the subplot of the Chums of Chance, a team of zeppelinists, we may have a social history as Boys' Own Adventure.
      Weekend Australia (Nexis) 23 December (Review section) 10

Originally published as part of the entry for Zeppelin, n.

Zeppelinist, n. was revised in June 2014.

Zeppelinist, n. was last modified in June 2025.