mother ship

noun

: a ship serving smaller craft

Examples of mother ship in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web After scaling back his onscreen duties, Harmon stepped down from NCIS in 2021 but remains an EP on the mother ship. Lynette Rice, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2024 The mother ship, the Polar Prince, then lost track of the vessel. Ray Sanchez and Graham Hurley, CNN, 17 Sep. 2024 The bogus transcript told of Titan informing its mother ship of a series of hull alarms, as well as reports of crackling noises. William J. Broad, New York Times, 10 June 2024 When the Soviet Union collapsed, in 1991, Ukraine floated to independence without bloodshed, after its own Communist Party leadership decided to cut the tow rope to the sinking mother ship. Anna Reid, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2022 See all Example Sentences for mother ship 

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Word History

First Known Use

1867, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mother ship was in 1867

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“Mother ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mother%20ship. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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