supertanker

English

Etymology

Noun

supertanker (plural supertankers)

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: 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

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