OCEAN LINER


Meaning of OCEAN LINER in English

Large merchant ship that visits designated ports on a regular schedule, carrying whatever cargo and passengers are available on the date of sailing.

The first liners were operated in the North Atlantic, notably by Mauretania and the Queen Mary ; the German Vaterland (later renamed Leviathan ), for many years the largest ship afloat; the ill-fated {{link=Titanic">Titanic ; and the United States . Their reign ended in the 1960s with the rise of jet travel, but liners ranging from cruise ships to refrigerated cargo ships continued to sail.

Britannica English dictionary.      Английский словарь Британика.