mother ship
/ˈmʌðər ˌʃɪp/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.76 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A vessel, aircraft or spacecraft that serves or carries a smaller vessel or vessels that operate independently from it.
noun
The largest vessel in a fleet of spaceships, from which the fleet is commanded and smaller spacecraft can be launched.
Example Sentences
- "“Tragically the mothership of terrorism is a country in India’s neighbourhood,” Modi told a gathering in India of the heads of governments of the Brics countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa."
- "One Tuesday evening early in October, 1960, he and his wife believed they say hovering near their home five or six flying saucers and their mother ship."
- "SDCC is the mothership of all cons. It's enormous. It has the best stars."
- "These vices all feed the mothership of hubris, however, which several of the key characters demonstrate in ample measure."
- "Sephora is the “mothership of the modern-day beauty industry”, claims Greg Silverman, global director of brand economics at the marketing consultancy Interbrand."