Space-opera
noun
1.
a television or radio drama or motion picture that is a science-fiction adventure story.
noun
1.
a science fiction drama, such as a film or television programme, esp one dealing with interplanetary flight
noun
any melodramatic literature, motion picture, or television program set in outer space
Word Origin
based on soap opera
space cadet
Read Also:
- Space-platform
noun 1. space station. space platform noun 1. another name for space station
- Spaceport
noun 1. a site at which spacecraft are tested, launched, sheltered, maintained, etc. noun 1. a base equipped to launch, maintain, and test spacecraft
- Space-probe
noun 1. Aerospace. an unmanned spacecraft designed to explore the solar system and transmit data back to earth. noun 1. a vehicle, such as a satellite, equipped to obtain scientific information, normally transmitted back to earth by radio, about the atmosphere, surface, and temperature of a planet, conditions in space, etc
- Spacer
noun 1. the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur. 2. the portion or extent of this in a given instance; extent or room in three dimensions: the space occupied by a body. 3. extent or area in two dimensions; a particular extent […]
- Space-rate
noun 1. a unit of compensation for written work, based on the amount of space that the submitted material occupies in print, and usually computed in column inches.