rocket ship
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.22 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A spacecraft propelled by a rocket engine.
Example Sentences
- "In a Gallup poll conducted near the start of 1955, just 9% said they’d like to go along on the first rocket ship to the moon if asked, and two years later, just 5% said they’d volunteer to be the first one up in a spacecraft."
- "At about 3 P.M., the four bomb-vessels and rocket-ship weighed, and stood further in; the latter, to give effect to her rockets, much nearer than the others."
- "And there was a further group, including Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80), who had been a POW in Germany, and William Golding (1911–93), who had commanded a Royal Navy rocket ship, who were propelled by the ordeals of war to examine the complexities of human nature and human society."
Etymology
From 1809.
Inflected Forms
rocket ships (plural)
rocket-ship (alternative)