supertanker

English

Etymology

super- +‎ tanker

Noun

supertanker (plural supertankers)

1. An extremely large tanker ship.

Usage notes

According to Wikipedia, an oil tanker must have the deadweight of over 250,000 tons to qualify as supertanker. In oil carrying capacity this means about 2 million barrels.

Translations

extremely large tanker

• Afrikaans: supertenker
• Catalan: superpetrolier m
• Dutch: mammoettanker (nl) m
• Finnish: jättitankkeri
• French: superpétrolier (fr) m, supertanker (fr) m
• Galician: superpetroleiro (gl) m
• Italian: superpetroliera f
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: sarincîka (ku)

• Latin: superpetrolearia f
• Portuguese: superpetroleiro m
• Romanian: superpetrolier (ro) m, supertanc (ro) m
• Russian: суперта́нкер (ru) m (supertánker)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: суперта̀нкер m

  Roman: supertànker (sh) m

• Spanish: superpetrolero m

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

supertanker m (plural supertankers)

1. supertanker

Further reading

• “supertanker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.