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starship

American  
[stahr-ship] / ˈstɑrˌʃɪp /

noun

  • starships
    plural
  1. a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.


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Etymology

Origin of starship

star + ship 1

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Starring as George Spencer was James Doohan, who later found fame as Scotty, chief engineer of the starship Enterprise, in the original Star Trek series.

From BBC Apr. 3, 2026

I once got to sit in a suite on the 50-yard line at the glistening new starship of a stadium in Los Angeles.

From Slate Dec. 12, 2024

All that changes when Wim stumbles on what turns out to be a derelict starship.

From Salon Dec. 9, 2024

My current favorite is “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” the animated and more irreverent of the “Star Trek” shows that follows the lower-ranking support crew that handle the menial jobs on a less prestigious Federation starship.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 5, 2024

My ship was in bad shape, so instead of returning directly to my stronghold, I headed to Joe’s Garage, an orbital starship repair shop over in Sector Ten.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

The SpaceX earnings call with Elon Musk on Tuesday night was entertaining as always and featured some ambitious plans for rockets and robots, starships and satellites.

From MarketWatch Aug. 5, 2026

Her love of “Star Trek” prompted her to collect replica starships and deck out her Christmas tree each year with a homemade alien spacecraft known as the Borg cube, complete with working lights.

From Seattle Times Jan. 1, 2024

Players must fend off pirates, navigate strange moons, build outposts and fix their own starships in a space epic that is due out on Xbox in September after years of development and delay.

From Washington Times Jun. 12, 2023

I assumed women like Uhura – women who looked like me – had always been on the bridge of starships.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2022

These nonrelativistic starships, enormously expensive as they would be, look relatively easy to design and build and use compared to starships that travel close to the speed of light.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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