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# spaceship

noun (a spaceship, spaceships)

«spaceship» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A vehicle that can travel in space, especially one with people inside. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spaceship/#m1)

### In the lessons

In science lessons pupils learn about rockets, space shuttles and the International Space Station. In stories and films, spaceships carry astronauts or aliens between planets. Phrases: build a spaceship, board the spaceship, alien spaceship.

### Examples

- The astronauts climbed into the spaceship. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spaceship/#x1)
- We built a spaceship out of cardboard boxes. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spaceship/#x2)
- In the story, an alien spaceship landed in the park. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spaceship/#x3)
- A spaceship needs huge rockets to leave Earth. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spaceship/#x4)
- The spaceship orbited the Moon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spaceship/#x5)
- Draw your own spaceship and label its parts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spaceship/#x6)

### Note

Countable: a spaceship, spaceships. One word. Real scientists more often say "spacecraft" (same in singular and plural). Myth: spaceships in films make loud noises in space, but sound cannot travel through empty space.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «spaceship» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spaceship/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«spaceship» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/spaceship.html) on Mova free.