starship

noun

star·​ship ˈstär-ˌship How to pronounce starship (audio)
: a spacecraft designed for interstellar travel

Examples of starship in a Sentence

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The first season of the first Star Trek built the infrastructure for a half-century (and counting) of cosmic wonder, with 29 episodes that blast the starship Enterprise into the weirdest corners of the galaxy and the human condition. EW.com, 19 Feb. 2025 By studying human civilization via his Time Screen to discover historical anomalies, Z-Ro and his young sidekick, Jet, hopped in their time machine to go back in time to fix errors alongside Roger the Robot inside their starship, the ZX-99. Jeff Spry, Space.com, 15 Feb. 2025 Judas Developer: Ghost Story Games; release date: TBD The latest narrative FPS from Ken Levine, creative director of BioShock, takes place on a doomed starship. Matt Gardner, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024 Strafing starships and helicopters can be almost perfectly traced in space. Ryan Waniata, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for starship

Word History

First Known Use

1882, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of starship was in 1882

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“Starship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/starship. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.

Kids Definition

starship

noun
star·​ship ˈstär-ˌship How to pronounce starship (audio)
: a vehicle designed for travel between stars
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