Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. (context nautical English) (synonym of cruise ship English)
WordNet
n. a passenger ship used commercially for pleasure cruises [syn: cruise ship]
Usage examples of "cruise liner".
Last week, crew members aboard the cruise liner Royal Majesty, sailing between Miami arid Cozumel, Mexico, spotted a flare in the night sky.
He felt it was his task, and his task only, to try to keep his ship from destroying itself against the great cruise liner.
Former cruise liner that was taken out of service and laid up in Norfolk, Virginia, for thirty years before being sold to a Turkish millionaire.
The SS Nordic Princess was a sleek cruise liner, and nearly brand-new.
Earlier in the day, while he was still disguised as a baggage handler, Hunter had instinctively picked out one particular cruise liner passenger.
They were on a requisitioned ex-cruise liner, one of the Embassy support ships, rolling in orbit around Nasqueron.
But there alongside the shabby, deteriorating two-story passenger terminal rose the magnificently sweeping lines of the SS New Amsterdam, the cruise liner that would carry them off on a week-long jaunt on the sunny ocean.
She was a 250400t stern trawler but she had the sleek lines of a modern cruise liner.
We have these conversations on the phone and you quite often know where I am, whether it's in the middle of the Himalayas or on an obsolete cruise liner, but you're always just this placeless, disembodied voice floating in from the airwaves for me.