Noun
A vessel or aircraft that serves or carries a smaller vessel or vessels that operate independently from it.
Fond term of address for one's mother.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgJesus Christ will be the leader of an intergalactic earth evacuation. We're getting some earth leaders up there to check the mother ship. The Bible says that the sky will be glorious and Christ will come back to us all. Nina Hagen
The new generation, raised on TV and the personal computer but deprived of a solid primary education, has become unmoored from the mother ship of culture. Camille Paglia
Aberly and Engel 1996, p. 72. The crew also built miniatures for several of the spaceships featured in the film, including a 30-foot (9.1 m) destroyer model Aberly and Engel 1996, p. 54. and a version of the mother ship spanning convert. Source: Internet
A helicopter then secretly followed the pirates back to their mother ship, Al Mulahi. Source: Internet
Variants main Bell X-1 and its B-29 mother ship The variants of the B-29 were outwardly similar in appearance but were in fact built around different wing center sections that affected the wingspan dimensions. Source: Internet
The expedition ended with the stranding of the two priests, Jacques Du Beron and Joseph Cortyl, on the coast of Sonsorol, because the mother ship Santísima Trinidad was driven to Mindanao by a storm. Source: Internet