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Plural of spaceship

regular plural

The plural of spaceship is spaceships.

Forms of spaceship

Singularspaceship
Pluralspaceships
Countablecountable

Spaceships in a sentence

  • The spaceships look like a row of threshers harvesting a field of wheat; the thickness in the direction of motion is only about 10 cells.1989 October 26, Richard Schroeppel, “Some recent Life results”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
  • We describe software that searches for spaceships in Conway's Game of Life and related two-dimensional cellular automata.2002, Richard Nowakowski, More Games of No Chance, page 433
  • The average random Life pattern settles down instead of exploding (if you ignore output gliders and spaceships).2007 May 12, Dave Greene, “Wanted: 2D CA, "as complex" but "denser" than Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry switch engine
  • The Tillek said those points were the spaceships that had brought humankind and dolphinkind to Pern.2002, Anne McCaffrey, The Dolphins of Pern, page 4. From the entry dolphinkind
  • To begin with and to be complete, I will list the original spaceships.1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry lightweight spaceship

Meaning of spaceship

  1. noun A manned vehicle that flies through space.
  2. noun A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.
  3. noun The operator <=> in certain programming languages, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.

Full definition of spaceship

Questions about the plural of spaceship

What is the plural of spaceship?
The plural of spaceship is spaceships.
Is spaceship countable?
Spaceship is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spaceship (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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