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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A person trained to pilot, navigate, or otherwise participate as a crew member of a spacecraft.

Wiktionary

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. n. a person trained to travel in a spacecraft

Etymologies

  1. Coined from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, "star") and ναύτης (naútēs, "sailor"). (Wiktionary)
  2. astro- + Greek nautēs, sailor (from naus, ship; see nāu- in Indo-European roots). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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