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starsailing

starsailing noun: travel through space on a spaceship or spacecraft.

Noun

starsailing (uncountable)

  1. Travel through space on a spaceship or spacecraft.
    • While the maindeck lay completely open to the Deep, protected only by the §-field which, in addition to making the act of starsailing possible, allowed mast, spars, and sails to be worked by crewbeings attired for a "shirtsleeve” environment, there were lower decks meant for cargo, passengers, and...2025, L. Neil Smith, Bretta Martyn
    Synonyms:
    spacetravel

Synonyms of starsailing

Origin of starsailing

From star + sailing.

Questions about starsailing

What does starsailing mean?
Starsailing means travel through space on a spaceship or spacecraft.
What part of speech is starsailing?
Starsailing is a noun.

Words near starsailing in the dictionary

  1. Stars of David
  2. Stars of Life
  3. stars of Vergina
  4. stars the glaze
  5. stars up
  6. starsailing
  7. starsailor
  8. starsailors
  9. starscape
  10. starscapes
  11. starseed

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