spaceship
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spaceships
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Etymology
Origin of spaceship
Explanation
A vehicle that travels outside the earth's atmosphere is a spaceship. If you want to walk around on the moon some day, you'll have to get there in a spaceship. Any craft that carries people or equipment through space is a spaceship, though you could also call it a "rocket ship." Traveling through the universe, far from Earth or just outside its atmosphere, definitely requires a spaceship. Spaceship was originally borrowed from 19th- and 20th-century science fiction, and even today the term is considered less scientific than spacecraft or space vehicle.
Vocabulary lists containing spaceship
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I keep thinking about the spaceship in Pixar’s “WALL-E,” the Axiom, where every human need has been anticipated and met.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
The New York City office has a spaceship vibe with spa-like comfort.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026
“When I was young, I really just wanted to work in a starship or a spaceship and look at other planets and explore other planets,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Doctor Who first launched in 1963, and follows the adventures of an eccentric Time Lord who travels in a spaceship larger on the inside, that disguises itself as a 1960s British police box.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
It wasn't until later that she learned that the ship was a spaceship.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
A self-affirming visionary who wanted to bring hope to people, White mixed journaling with talk of spaceships and metaphysics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
A giant atrium was planned inside the structure where hologram images of spaceships and floating boulders whiz by visitors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
The restart of commercial missions with a mothership and two Delta spaceships opens up the potential for $450 million in annual revenue across 125 flights, analysts at Jefferies said.
From Barron's ● Apr. 6, 2026
The spaceships of the future—the ones we imagine, or design on paper—have the signature feature of never blowing up.
From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025
Some of our old drawings are in there, my brother’s spaceships and red and gold explosions, my delicate, old-fashioned little girls.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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