A fictional or fantastical vessel that travels through the clouds or sky; a ship-like craft designed to navigate the air.
From 'cloud' plus 'ship' (Old English 'scip,' from Proto-Germanic 'skipan'). The compound reflects the imaginative convention of treating the sky as a navigable medium like the sea.
Cloudship is primarily a literary and speculative fiction term, exemplifying how humans metaphorically extend navigation concepts (ship, captain, fleet) to new environments—we do the same with 'spaceship' and 'starship,' using the ocean as our template for understanding alien frontiers.
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