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lifeship

lifeship noun: a spaceship serving as an emergency medical center.

Noun

lifeship (plural lifeships)

  1. A spaceship serving as an emergency medical center.
    • You target our habs and lifeships, you slaughter us in our millions. We attack your military and infrastructure. And you call us the terrorists.2004, Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 459

Forms of lifeship

plurallifeships

Origin of lifeship

Compound of life + ship.

Questions about lifeship

What does lifeship mean?
Lifeship means a spaceship serving as an emergency medical center.
What part of speech is lifeship?
Lifeship is a noun.
What is the plural of lifeship?
The plural of lifeship is lifeships.

Words near lifeship in the dictionary

  1. lifesaver
  2. lifesavers
  3. lifesaving
  4. lifescape
  5. lifescapes
  6. lifeship
  7. lifeships
  8. lifesize
  9. lifesized
  10. lifeskill
  11. lifeskills

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