noun
Meaning 1
A female astronaut.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
spacewoman
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History
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin spatiumbor. Old French espace Anglo-Norman spacebor. Middle English space English space Proto-Germanic *wībą Proto-West Germanic *wīb Old English wīf Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Old English wīfmann Middle English woman Middle English -woman English -woman English spacewoman From space + -woman.
Across languages
Translations
14 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Cornish: benyn efanvos — a female astronaut
- Cornish: stervarnores — a female astronaut
- Dutch: ruimtevaarster — a female astronaut
- Dutch: astronaute — a female astronaut
- Dutch: kosmonaute — a female astronaut
- German: Raumfahrerin — a female astronaut
- German: Weltraumfahrerin — a female astronaut
- German: Astronautin — a female astronaut
- German: Kosmonautin — a female astronaut
- Polish: astronautka — a female astronaut
- Polish: kosmonautka — a female astronaut
- Romanian: astronaută — a female astronaut
- Russian: же́нщина-космона́вт (žénščina-kosmonávt) — a female astronaut
- Russian: космона́втка (kosmonávtka) — a female astronaut