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  • noun science fiction A spaceman
  • noun science fiction An inhabitant of a star

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Examples

  • A futuristic fantasy called Heroes: The Musical will tell the story of Major Tom, as well as the starman and a "young dude" called David and will have its world premiere in March at the IndigO2 venue, inside London's former Millennium Dome.

    David Bowie says yes to futuristic musical based on his hits 2011

  • There's a starman waiting in the sky, David Bowie sang.

    David Bowie says yes to futuristic musical based on his hits 2011

  • Sorry Glyn you will have to wait until then to take on the Tallinn starman.

    Plaid Pigeons Flying Home Glyn Davies 2008

  • I don't remember what order I placed my runs in (Or even what my 10th run was), but of the ones I remember voting for, I'm 7 for 9 at the moment with one more (starman) I'm sure to appear.

    Top 100 Comic Book Runs #12-10 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • My favorite squeaky toy is a flip flop my aunty Candice gave me but I also have a pheasant, a lobster, and a starman baby girl.

    Katy Tells All... Field Notes 2007

  • My favorite squeaky toy is a flip flop my aunty Candice gave me but I also have a pheasant, a lobster, and a starman baby girl.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Field Notes 2007

  • "Insolent human shitwit!" yelled the Y'tata skipper to the starman, surging to his feet and flipping up the back of his copper-studded vest in challenge.

    Sagittarius Whorl May, Julian 2001

  • The terror of plague deflated the toughest starman when he faced it.

    The Zero Stone Norton, Andre 1968

  • She clasped one hand with Gytha, held the other to me, while I took one of Thad's, and he Emrys-and we made a linked circle about that grave of a starman who would never see the stars again.

    Dark Piper Norton, Andre 1968

  • He was now about nine hundred years old, give or take fifty; strong as an ox, mentally alert and active, in good hormone balance, all twenty-eight. senses sharp, his own special psi faculty - orientation-still as infallible as ever, and all in all as sane as a compulsively peripatetic starman could be.

    Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957

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