: a vehicle used for space travel

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The hub of the spaceship was too crowded and chaotic for communication, so Frank Kuligowski motioned his pal to the peace of a nearby corridor. Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 26 July 2026 That shape, whose contour resembles both an indecipherable ideogram and a flat asymmetrical spaceship, shows Parsons’s inventive side. John Yau, ARTnews.com, 24 July 2026 Paramount+ delivered the main full trailer for season 4 on June 15, 2026, and it’s packed with dinosaurs, cowboys, horses, space storms, dreams, nightmares, fire-breathing dragons, haunted spaceships, and hallucinatory pleasure planets. Jeff Spry, Space.com, 23 July 2026 The song comes with futuristic visuals replete with spaceship control panels, hazmat suits, and apocalyptic collapse. Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 23 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for spaceship

Word History

First Known Use

1880, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of spaceship was in 1880

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“Spaceship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spaceship. Accessed 31 Jul. 2026.

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spaceship

noun

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