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spaceshiplike en · ADJ

Etymology

From spaceship + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling a spaceship.
   • The designs presented here in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates and one of the world’s top oil producers, are to be built on an island just off the coast and include three museums designed by the celebrity architects Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and Tadao Ando, as well as a sprawling, spaceshiplike performing arts center designed by Zaha Hadid. 2007 February 1, Hassan Fattah, “Celebrity Architects Reveal a Daring Cultural Xanadu for the Arab World”, in New York Times:

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