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Spaceship Common

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Spaceship has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction)

2

A vehicle that flies through space.

See Also
starcruiser spaceshiplike rake astroship generation seedship ship sleeper ship
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
spacecraft

Origin

The word combines "space" and "ship," originally referring to a vehicle resembling a flying saucer. It was coined as a programming operator based on this visual similarity.

Rhyming Words
hip whip chip unhip inship rechip reship i ship unship v chip dadship overhip hagship fanship modchip manship skyship curship dogship donship
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