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spaceship

noun

space·​ship ˈspās-ˌship How to pronounce spaceship (audio)
: a vehicle used for space travel

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Whatever came down on that long-ago day had come from a place much farther away than another star or another galaxy, and if spaceship was the first word to come into his mind, perhaps that was only because his mind had no other way of grasping what his eyes were seeing. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025 Everybody made spaceships space out of metal. Udita Jhunjhunwala, Variety, 23 Nov. 2025 Embodying a futuristic, spaceship-like structure, the museum was designed by MAD Architects founder Ma Yansong, with a landscape by Mia Lehrer of Studio-MLA and Stantec as the executive architect. Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025 Wim and Neel walking and falling down that ditch and then eventually finding the spaceship, the feeling of it is directly from my childhood. Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025 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 27 Nov. 2025.

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spaceship

noun
space·​ship ˈspās-ˌship How to pronounce spaceship (audio)
ˈspāsh-

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