Definitions

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

  • noun A very large ship used for transporting oil and other liquids in large quantities.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An extremely large tanker ship.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the largest class of oil tankers

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word supertanker.

Examples

  • The term supertanker originally applied to the class of tankers too large to transit international canals while carrying cargo, and currently defined by two ship classes: Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) between ~200,000 and ~300,000 deadweight tons (dwt) and Ultra Large Crude Carriers (ULCCs) greater than ~300,000 dwt.

    Supertanker 2008

  • At the end of “The A-Team,” a huge supertanker is exploded and an aerial view makes the 100 or so enormous box cars strewn all over the port look like little Lego toys.

    On-Camera Review: The A-Team » Scene-Stealers 2010

  • John Travolta talks about his son oil for a record ransom and witnesses said four pirates were killed in Greek supertanker and its crew of 28 on Monday after a rival pirate group attacked the pirates onboard in an ... naval coalition in the gulf.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • The MV Rim was seized ... ship MV Filitsa on Monday after a ransom was delivered and the crew are safe, a regional oil on Monday, a day after the biggest ransom yet paid to them was dropped oil for a record ransom and witnesses said four pirates were killed in Greek supertanker and its crew of 28 on Monday after a rival pirate group attacked the pirates onboard in an unsuccessful attempt to steal the ransom, the tanker and its 28-member crew on Monday after receiving what they said was a $5.5 million oil supertanker and the 28 hostages aboard into a massive fireball

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • The MV Rim was seized ... ship MV Filitsa on Monday after a ransom was delivered and the crew are safe, a regional oil on Monday, a day after the biggest ransom yet paid to them was dropped oil for a record ransom and witnesses said four pirates were killed in Greek supertanker and its crew of 28 on Monday after a rival pirate group attacked the pirates onboard in an unsuccessful attempt to steal the ransom, the tanker and its 28-member crew on Monday after receiving what they said was a $5.5 million oil supertanker and the 28 hostages aboard into a massive fireball oil supertanker and the 28 hostages aboard ... pirates have abandoned an Indian-flagged dhow they had held for more than two weeks.

    WN.com - Articles related to Somali Pirates Hijack North Korea's Cargo Ship 2010

  • The MV Rim was seized ... ship MV Filitsa on Monday after a ransom was delivered and the crew are safe, a regional oil on Monday, a day after the biggest ransom yet paid to them was dropped oil for a record ransom and witnesses said four pirates were killed in Greek supertanker and its crew of 28 on Monday after a rival pirate group attacked the pirates onboard in an unsuccessful attempt to steal the ransom, the tanker and its 28-member crew on Monday after receiving what they said was a $5.5 million oil supertanker and the 28 hostages aboard into a massive fireball

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • The MV Rim was seized ... ship MV Filitsa on Monday after a ransom was delivered and the crew are safe, a regional oil on Monday, a day after the biggest ransom yet paid to them was dropped oil for a record ransom and witnesses said four pirates were killed in Greek supertanker and its crew of 28 on Monday after a rival pirate group attacked the pirates onboard in an unsuccessful attempt to steal the ransom, the tanker and its 28-member crew on Monday after receiving what they said was a $5.5 million oil supertanker and the 28 hostages aboard into a massive fireball oil supertanker and the 28 hostages aboard ... pirates have abandoned an Indian-flagged dhow they had held for more than two weeks.

    WN.com - Articles related to Somali Pirates Hijack North Korea's Cargo Ship 2010

  • The ships ever hijacked, after a plane dropped a record ransom on the pirates had a shootout just before a $5.5 million ransom was delivered to free a supertanker loaded with combustible oil for a record ransom and witnesses said four pirates were killed in Greek supertanker and its crew of 28 on Monday after a rival pirate group attacked the pirates onboard in an unsuccessful attempt to steal the ransom, the pirates have abandoned an Indian-flagged dhow they had held for more than two weeks.

    WN.com - Articles related to Somali Pirates Hijack North Korea's Cargo Ship 2010

  • The MV Rim was seized ... ship MV Filitsa on Monday after a ransom was delivered and the crew are safe, a regional oil on Monday, a day after the biggest ransom yet paid to them was dropped oil for a record ransom and witnesses said four pirates were killed in Greek supertanker and its crew of 28 on Monday after a rival pirate group attacked the pirates onboard in an unsuccessful attempt to steal the ransom, the tanker and its 28-member crew on Monday after receiving what they said was a $5.5 million oil supertanker and the 28 hostages aboard into a massive fireball

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • Her support group, called "Friends of Amanda," started up to counter what founders called the "supertanker of negative information" making its way out of Italy and proliferating on the internet.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Nick Allen 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.