Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person trained to pilot, navigate, or otherwise participate as a crew member of a spacecraft.
Wiktionary
- n. A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. a person trained to travel in a spacecraft; one who travels in a spacecraft; -- called in the Soviet Union and Russia
cosmonaut .
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
Etymologies
- Coined from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, "star") and ναύτης (naútēs, "sailor"). (Wiktionary)
- astro- + Greek nautēs, sailor (from naus, ship; see nāu- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The male TFNGs were learning there was an even more powerful pheromone than jet-jockey wings and the SEAL insignia: the title astronaut.”
“The lower-case-a "astronaut" is someone who has flown in space, either aboard a US spacecraft or who is an American.”
“Each astronaut is allowed a "bonus food allotment" to bring some of the comforts of home to outer space.”
“Still, I am kinda bugged by his statement (specifically having been bumped recently from the ESA Astronaut selection), as this seems to imply that being an astronaut is more down to luck than skill.”
“At the moment, to be called an astronaut is a claim to significant achievement but we all hope the day will come when it is no more or less impressive than being a sailor or aviator.”
“Any school visit by an astronaut is of great value and can serve as a life-altering event.”
“Any school visit by an astronaut is of great value and can serve as a life-altering event.”
“The era of the 'hero astronaut' is going the way of the Mercury 7.”
“My wife (an artist) loves his oft-repeated statement that he thinks being an astronaut is dead easy compared to being an artist!”
“In fact, it might just be that the easiest route to becoming an astronaut is to become a US Senator, like John Glenn.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘astronaut’.
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Mandles, Candles for Men
candles with a "manly" scent
a1 steak sauce, baseball glove, grillin' out, campfire, pigskin, bowling alley, musty locker room, chuck norris sweat, urinal deodorizer, bait shop, wet dog, hardware store and 210 more...
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the curious incident of the dog in th...
words from a novel by mark haddon
dog, garden fork, Wellington, prime, maths, clench, The Hound of the ..., police, dead, bread-slicing mac..., groaning, drawn and 126 more...
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Words without the letter E
chord, slur, anabaptist, anabolic, diabolic, turbid, torpid, somniloquist, trump, bipolar, dioxin, hydrocarbon and 107 more...
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Nature and Environment
north, east, west, mountain, sea, beach, river, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, island and 205 more...
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Words that start with A
alphabet, alligator, ate, actual, annual, activity, analyze, ability, astronaut, add, ape, aches and 20 more...
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identifiers
species, sex, age bracket, occupation, hobby .. etc.
man, woman, human being, student, zombie, artist, octopus, race driver, scientist, algorithmist, mathematician, child and 59 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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NASA
A place for NASA-related stuff, from Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, etc.
faithful shepard, lunar module, command service m..., trajectory, moon shot, apollo, mercury, gemini, skylab, viking, velcro, tang and 103 more...
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hober's Words
anglosphere, wiki, slither, cylon, satchel, faustian, ragamuffin, frak, salient, fervid, tartan, snowclone and 299 more...
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boychoir's Words
tantamount, nom de guerre, absurd, dolt, transmute, dichotomy, dandy, schadenfreude, ennui, binary, analog, obfuscate and 93 more...
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astrosfan's Words
pantaloons, schadenfreude, astonishing, eve, static, freeze, luscious, voluptuous, stagnant, mimic, speed, vespertillinoid and 302 more...
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Shakespeare Adaptations
So I went to see Love's Labor's Lost in the park. The play was set (just as Willie intended) in India in the 1960s. Clearly, it needs a list.
visor, russian, electric guitar, palm tree, drum set, flip, astronaut, pose, motorcycle, mark, man, mask
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personal
ineffable, visceral, immovable, gracious, wonder, sublime, unhindered, refine, imminent, intrigue, astonish, cosmonaut and 7 more...
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They Came From Outer Space!
Words coined in or popularized by science fiction. Some stolen from here: http://io9....
spaceman, spacesuit, spaceship, astronaut, robotics, android, grok, robot, microcomputer, hyperdrive, cyberspace, spacecraft and 10 more...
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Snoopy
Fifty things Snoopy: his favorites, his nemeses, what he imitated, and what he imagined.
daisy hill puppy ..., fuzzy face, skritched, ptui, shortstop, arm wrestling, beethoven, moose, kangaroo, pelican, python, polar bear and 38 more...
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what should i be when i grow up
janitor, salesperson, advertiser, journalist, seamstress, maid, clerk, author, librarian, scientist, astronaut, politician and 7 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for astronaut.
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