0 a large ship or spacecraft from which other smaller ones are launched (= start to travel) or get supplies:
The harbour was shallow so small boats went in, out of range of their mother ships.
The spaceship will be carried aloft by a mothership and then released to rocket into space at roughly 2,100 mph.
Japan has decided to pull its whaling fleet out of the Antarctic and end this year's whale hunt early after a deadly fire crippled its mothership.
The show has had multiple spinoffs but audiences still love the original, the "mother ship" as the network calls it.
We've had some good beers at other taverns, but we decided it was time to revisit the mothership.
This network may include raw-material suppliers, resellers, and other organizations intimately connected with a corporate mothership.
