Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A very large, luxurious oceangoing passenger ship.
  • noun A railway car that is fitted with more capacious, comfortable, or luxurious accommodations than usual.
  • noun A railway train composed of such cars.

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  • noun An ocean liner or cruise liner of over 10,000 gross tons.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ liner

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Examples

  • The French superliner with its slender hull, gracious appointments, and sweeping enclosed decks made her an ideal temporary home.

    The Two First Ladies Davis, Margaret Leslie 2008

  • (At 103 feet, the ship is unusually wide for its 420-foot length-the 963-foot-long superliner QE2 is only 2 feet wider.)

    It Doesn't Rock, Rattle Or Roll 2008

  • LANGFORD: But these are three superliner cars, about 150 total passengers on board.

    CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2007 2007

  • LANGFORD: But these are three superliner cars, about 150 total passengers on board.

    CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2007 2007

  • They left Osaka on an old pre-war train which, despite its perfect cleanliness, was in marked contrast with the superliner that had brought them to the city.

    The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980

  • Princess Cruises' superliner Sun Princess deploys to Brisbane for the summer this week to start the season, ahead of the arrival of Holland America Line's Volendam in Sydney on October 4.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • South of St. Louis, the lone engine pulling the six superliner cars broke down.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Sydney's superliner Pacific Jewel, the newly-refurbished Pacific Dawn sailing from Brisbane and Pacific Sun cruising from her homeports of Newcastle and Fremantle.

    ETravelBlackboard.com 2010

  • Royal Caribbean Cruises 'third superliner to be based in the region will better enable the company to feed the growing cruising appetites of Australian travellers said Royal Caribbean

    ETravelBlackboard.com 2010

  • South of St. Louis, the lone engine pulling the six superliner cars broke down.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

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