Other forms: spaceships
A spaceship is a crewed vessel that carries people beyond the sky. A spaceship landed, aboard the spaceship, build a spaceship.
It is the science fiction word, since engineers say spacecraft and name the specific vehicle. Spaceship Earth is a phrase from the 1960s for the planet as a single closed vessel everybody is aboard.
1nounspaceshipA crewed vessel that carries people beyond the sky, the word used above all in science fiction.
“In the film, a giant spaceship lands in the middle of New York.”
spaceship is a vessel.
Space plus ship, first recorded in the early twentieth century.
space + ship*
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA