spaceship
Americannoun
noun
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
Example Sentences
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Spaceship Neptune is more of a balloon than a rocket.
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024
To end on a more uplifting note, let’s go back to China, specifically to the indoor aquatic park Chimelong Spaceship in Zhuhai.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024
After screenings, the festival hosted film parties; attendees could enter a waiting area known as The Spaceship and then step into a virtual film lounge.
From Washington Post • Feb. 4, 2022
Park My Spaceship is the simple, extremely amusing app I didn’t know I needed.
From The Verge • Dec. 25, 2021
His ideas also led to the founding of a Society for Spaceship Travel, whose members tried experimenting with small liquid-propelled rockets which were generally recovered by parachutes.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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