lifeship

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noun

A spaceship serving as an emergency medical center.

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Meanings

nounlifeship (plural lifeships)

plural lifeships

  1. literatureA 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

Origin

Compound of life + ship.

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APA

lifeship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lifeship

MLA

“lifeship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lifeship. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lifeship,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lifeship.

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