Synonyms:
starship, spaceship
Meaning: a spacecraft designed to carry a crew into interstellar space (especially in science fiction)
Usage examples
The starship, now a mere spaceship, was on course at one gravity.
For the first time in all his three years of deep-space service he felt an overpowering urge to go down into the very middle of the Middle; to the starship's main lounge.
And again, well out beyond the orbit of the moon, just before the starship's mighty Chaytor engines hurled her out of space as we know it into that unknowable something that is hyperspace, he poised a finger. But Immergence, too, was normal; all the green lights except one went out, needles dropped to zero, both phones went dead, all signals stopped.