starship

[stahr-ship]

noun

1. a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.

Word History and Origins

Origin of starship¹

star + ship ¹

Example Sentences

Even when it doesn’t affect the plot directly, it’s the canvas the story is painted on, its whiteness of an intensity not otherwise seen on the screen, except in starship hallways.

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The voyages of the starship Enterprise will include a 5½-mile stretch in Pasadena on New Year’s Day.

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Enter Ceesay’s Morrow, a cyborg with a mechanical arm and other technological augmentations, such as the ability to download a starship’s files into his brain.

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Meanwhile, Musk has been watching his personal fortune shrink by the day and his reputation be blown to smithereens like one of his failed starship rockets.

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

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