astronaut
Meanings
Plural: astronauts
Noun
- a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
- "the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts"
- A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
- A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
- An American space traveler, when contrasted against equivalent terms from other countries such as cosmonaut, taikonaut, spationaut, and vyomanaut.
- A person (typically man) working abroad away from their family.
Origin / Etymology
From astro- + -naut. Coined from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”) and ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”).
Scrabble Score: 9
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Words With Friends Score: 11
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