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# spaceship

«spaceship» in Mova's school dictionary: **A vehicle that can travel in space, especially one with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a spaceship, spaceships)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### In the corpora

- [Oliver said sorry, and on Saturday he played with Alfie the whole morning — the rocket, two spaceships and a moon base.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/358-promises-to-little-brothers-gran-dad-and-the-cat/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spaceship» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spaceship/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.