mother ship

noun

: a ship serving smaller craft

Examples of mother ship in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Samantha Hodder’s Substack newsletter Bingeworthy is the mother ship for narrative podcast opinion, review, trends, and analysis. — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

The last scene in that script is this little alien that gets left behind by its mother ship and is left alone on Earth. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026

Some of the systems on the RFA Lyme Bay can be loaded onto a smaller vessel that can be launched and piloted autonomously from the ship, which acts as a mother ship, waiting outside any potential minefield, Britton said. — Emma Burrows, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026

In other words, this car functions as a mother ship capable of transporting and charging a compact flying car. — Daisuke Takimoto, Wired News, 9 May 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1867, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for mother ship

• authorship
• battleship
• censorship
• chairmanship
• chieftainship
• comradeship
• consulship
• craftsmanship
• dealership
• draftsmanship
• fellowship
• fingertip