: a vehicle used for space travel

Examples of spaceship in a Sentence

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The watch’s futuristic design perfectly captures the ethos of the company, with its spaceship-style, vortex-like time display set across three discs, complemented by a spinning tourbillon in the middle. — Rachel Ingram, Robb Report, 18 Oct. 2026 Amid the hustle and bustle of Frieze London, where champagne bottles pop and deals are orchestrated, Brazilian abstract artist Marina Perez Simão wants to invite guests to contemplate inside a spaceship in Pace Gallery’s booth. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 13 Oct. 2026 The massive 600,000-square-foot structure of glass, concrete, and steel (two Eiffel Towers’ worth of steel, according to the company), looms over its environment like a spaceship from another world. — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026 In this first contact technothriller, a mysterious spaceship carrying an alien hive mind called the Irunmole appears above Nigeria. — Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 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 21 Oct. 2026.

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