Word.ws English Dictionary

genship

genship noun: clipped compound of generation ship.

Noun

genship (plural genships)

  1. Clipped compound of generation ship.
    • There had been doubts that a genship crew would be able to handle a starship after five generations or so post departure, ...2018, Wes Boyd, Destiny, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN
    • Second, genship endurance is still a het dependent plan. Maybe we can hack cryophase, just sleep for thousands of years on your ship, become space vampires. The breeders can keep breeding."2016, Gardner Dozois, The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 29, Hachette UK, →ISBN

Forms of genship

pluralgenships

Questions about genship

What does genship mean?
Genship means clipped compound of generation ship.
What part of speech is genship?
Genship is a noun.
What is the plural of genship?
The plural of genship is genships.

Words near genship in the dictionary

  1. gensengs
  2. Genseric
  3. genses
  4. genset
  5. gensets
  6. genship
  7. genships
  8. gensing
  9. Gensler
  10. Genslers
  11. Genson

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: genship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “genship.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/genship. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.