planetship

noun

Etymology

From planet + ship.

  1. derived from *skēyb-
  2. inherited from *skipą
  3. inherited from *skip
  4. inherited from sċip
  5. inherited from ship
  6. compounded as planetship — “planet + ship

Definitions

  1. A spacecraft for relatively short journeys in the vicinity of a planet.

    • If an interstellar flight belongs in the category of very slow flight, the corresponding starship is converted into a planetship for rapid flights within the solar system.
    • And to cap it all, there's a planetship full of important politicians in orbit around Mars unable to land while this crisis is with us.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for planetship. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA