starship
noun
a spaceship designed for intergalactic travel.
starships
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pluralof starship.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
That positioning also means I assumed women like Uhura – women who looked like me – had always been on the bridge of starships.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2022
And perhaps the symbol on the bow of one of the first starships would be a dodecahedron, with the inscription “Starship Theodorus of the Planet Earth.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
