noun
spaceport
SPAYS-pawt
noun
1
A facility used for launching or landing spacecraft.
"The company built a private spaceport in the Texas desert."
"Tourists can watch rocket launches from the visitor centre at the spaceport."
How to Use Spaceport
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn airport, but for rockets and spacecraft instead of planes.
Common pairings
commercial spaceport
launch from a spaceport
Word Forms
spaceports plural
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Etymology
A modern coinage combining "space" with "port," modeled on "airport" and "seaport."