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star-ship
Also star ship, starship.
[f. star n.1 + ship n.1]
1. The Southern constellation Argo Navis.
1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. i. Tropheis 216 'Twixt Eridanus And th' Heav'nly Star-Ship. 1849Cupples Green Hand xviii. (1856) 178 The great star-ship down in the south.
2. Science Fiction. A large manned spacecraft designed for interstellar travel.
1934Astounding Stories Dec. 9 To start the year we offer you Star Ship Invincible, by Frank K. Kelly. 1956F. Pohl Alternating Currents 77 A particle of meteoric matter slammed into Starship Terra II in hyperspace. 1967J. Blish Star Trek 40 Capt. James Kirk of the star⁓ship Enterprise..had seen more planets than most men knew existed. 1972H. C. Rae Shooting Gallery iv. 242 Now he was to be..flung, like one of those plastic star⁓ships, out into a galaxy of worlds which didn't really exist. 1978Listener 30 Mar. 405/1 Smaller monitor screens were scattered about. It could have been the bridge of a star-ship. 1980Daily Tel. 14 Jan. 8/1 Could star ships ever be propelled by the violent mutual annihilation of matter and anti-matter? |