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cosmodrome

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A site for launching spacecraft, usually in reference to such Soviet or Russian built sites as the Baikonur, Kazakhstan and Plesetsk, Russia cosmodromes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: spaceport

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From cosmo- + -drome, modelled after aerodrome.

Across languages

Translations

66 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: kosmodroom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Albanian: kozmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Arabic: كُوسْمُودْرُوم (kusmudrūm) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Armenian: կոսմոդրոմ (kosmodrom) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Asturian: cosmódromu — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Azerbaijani: kosmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Basque: kosmodromo — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Belarusian: касмадро́м (kasmadróm) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Bulgarian: космодру́м (kosmodrúm) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Catalan: cosmòdrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Chinese Mandarin: 航天發射場 /航天发射场 (hángtiān fāshèchǎng) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Czech: kosmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Danish: rumhavn — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Danish: kosmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Dutch: ruimtehaven — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Dutch: kosmodroom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Esperanto: kosmodromo — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Estonian: kosmodroom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Finnish: kosmodromi — a site for launching spacecraft
  • French: cosmodrome — a site for launching spacecraft
  • French: base de lancement — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Galician: cosmódromo — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Georgian: კოსმოდრომი (ḳosmodromi) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • German: Weltraumbahnhof — a site for launching spacecraft
  • German: Kosmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Greek: κοσμοδρόμιο (kosmodrómio) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Hebrew: קוסמודרום — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Hungarian: űrrepülőtér — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Hungarian: kozmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Ido: kosmodromo — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Indonesian: kosmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Interlingua: cosmodromo — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Italian: cosmodromo — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Japanese: 宇宙基地 (uchū kichi) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Kazakh: ғарыш айлағы (ğaryş ailağy) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Korean: 우주 기지 (uju giji) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Latvian: kosmodroms — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Lithuanian: kosmodromas — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Macedonian: космодром (kosmodrom) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Malay: kosmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Mongolian: космодром (kosmodrom) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kosmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kosmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Occitan: cosmodròme — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Persian: پایگاه فضایی (pây-gâh-e fazâyi) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Polish: kosmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Portuguese: cosmódromo — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Romanian: cosmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Romanian: космодром (cosmodrom) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Russian: космодро́м (kosmodróm) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Serbo-Croatian: космодром — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Serbo-Croatian: kosmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Slovak: kozmodróm — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Slovene: kozmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Spanish: cosmódromo — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Swedish: rymdbas — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Swedish: rymdhamn — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Swedish: kosmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Tagalog: kosmodromo — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Turkish: uzay üssü — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Turkish: kozmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Turkmen: kosmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Ukrainian: космодро́м (kosmodróm) — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Uzbek: kosmodrom — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Vietnamese: sân bay vũ trụ — a site for launching spacecraft
  • Yiddish: קאָסמאָדראָם (kosmodrom) — a site for launching spacecraft