astroship

English

Etymology

astro- +‎ ship

Noun

astroship (plural astroships)

  1. (science fiction) A spaceship; a starship.
    • 1969, Illustrated weekly of Pakistan (page 75)
      The astroships — as we have named the future space vehicles — will be much more comfortable than the Apollo cabins.
    • 1999, Joseph Neil Schulman, Brad Linaweaver, Profile in Silver: And Other Screenwritings (page 472)
      But we'd need to coordinate our efforts with another astroship.
    • 2007, Kelly D. Bell, Visitors: A New Look at UFOs
      If these are astroships from someplace besides our specific, physical universe, maybe they come from a place where our laws of physics do not apply, where there is no such thing as velocity/momentum.

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