noun · neutral
spaceship
/ˈspeɪsʃɪp/SPACE·ship
Band 5-6speakingtask2
a vehicle designed to travel in outer space
Examples
“The astronauts boarded the spaceship for the mission to the space station.”
“Private companies are developing reusable spaceships to cut launch costs.”
“She watched a documentary about the history of spaceships.”
Band 8 sentence
“The development of reusable spaceships has dramatically reduced the marginal cost of launching commercial satellites.”
Collocations
- launch a spaceship
- manned/unmanned spaceship
- reusable spaceship
Word family
spaceship nounspaceships noun (plural)
Common mistakes
space ship→spaceship
rocket→spaceship
Say it for a higher band
5rocket→6spacecraft→7+spaceship
Synonyms
spacecraft
Easily confused
spacecraft
“The unmanned spacecraft successfully entered orbit.”
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