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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

In the late 1950s, he worked on Project Orion, a collaborative effort to build a starship powered by small atomic bombs.

From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2025

“We're making a show about misfits who don't necessarily fit into a Federation starship, where they've gone to Starfleet Academy and they put on uniforms every day,” he proposes.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2025

If you flew your technology-based starship into a zone where technology didn’t function, your engines would fail the moment you crossed the zone border.

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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