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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A vehicle designed to be launched into space.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a vehicle capable of travelling in or into outer space; at present, all such vehicles are powered by rocket engine.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A vehicle that travels through space.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun

Etymologies

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space +‎ craft.

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