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noun
An astronaut, often a male astronaut.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: childish, informal
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A humanoid extraterrestrial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: astronaut, cosmonaut
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: traveler, traveller
Narrower terms: spacewalker, Armstrong, Neil Armstrong, Gagarin, Yuri Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Glenn, John Glenn, John Herschel Glenn Jr., Shepard, Alan Shepard, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., Tereshkova, Valentina Tereshkova, Valentina Vladmirovna Tereshkova
History
Etymology tree Latin spatiumbor. Old French espace Anglo-Norman spacebor. Middle English space English space Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English spaceman From space + -man.
Across languages
38 source translations are retained for this English entry.
