astronaut

astro- +‎ -naut. Coined from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”) and ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”).

• enPR: ăsʹtrənôt'
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæstɹəˌnɔːt/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæstɹəˌnɔt/
  • (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈæstɹəˌnɒt/

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astronaut (plural astronauts)

1. A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
   1. An American space traveler, when contrasted against equivalent terms from other countries such as cosmonaut , taikonaut and vyomanaut.
      • 2013, Edward Clinton Ezell, Linda Neuman Ezell, The Partnership: A NASA History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Courier Corporation →ISBN

        Though from different social, economic, and political worlds, the astronauts and cosmonauts had much in common, both as professionals and human beings.

2. (Hong Kong) A returnee who frequently flies back and forth between Hong Kong and his/her adopted home country.

• cosmonaut

• spationaut
• taikonaut
• vyomanaut

• ancient astronaut
• astronautrix
• astronautte
• astronette

• astronautic
• astronautics
• astronautical
• aeronaut

astronaut

1. astronaut, cosmonaut

• kosmonaut

astronaut m

1. astronaut, cosmonaut

• kosmonaut

• astronautika

• astronaut in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• astronaut in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /astronavt/, [asd̥ʁoˈnɑwˀd̥]

astronaut c (singular definite astronauten, plural indefinite astronauter)

1. astronaut

• kosmonaut

• astronaut on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Borrowed from English astronaut.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɑ.stroːˈnɑu̯t/, /ˌɑs.troːˈnɑu̯t/

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• Hyphenation: as‧tro‧naut
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯t

astronaut m (plural astronauten, diminutive astronautje n)

1. astronaut [from early 1950s]

• kosmonaut
• ruimtevaarder

• astronautisch

• astronautiek

From English astronaut

astronaut m (definite singular astronauten, indefinite plural astronauter, definite plural astronautene)

1. an astronaut

• romfarer

• “astronaut” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English astronaut

astronaut m (definite singular astronauten, indefinite plural astronautar, definite plural astronautane)

1. an astronaut

• romfarar

• “astronaut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French astronaute, English astronaut.

• IPA^(key): /as.troˈnaut/

astronaut m (plural astronauți, feminine equivalent astronaută)

1. astronaut

• cosmonaut

• astronautic
• astronautică
• astronautician

• taikonaut

• astronaut in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

• IPA^(key): /astronǎut/

astronàut m (Cyrillic spelling астрона̀ут)

1. astronaut

• (astronaut): kozmonàut, kosmonàut

astro- +‎ -naut

astronaut c

1. an astronaut

• kosmonaut
• rymdfarare