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lifeships

lifeships is the plural of lifeship.

Meaning of lifeship

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

Questions about lifeships

What is lifeships the plural of?
Lifeships is the plural of lifeship.

Words near lifeships in the dictionary

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

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