English > astronaut: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person trained to travel in a spacecraft. |
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| Example | "the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts" |
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| Synonyms | spaceman, cosmonaut |
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| Instances | Armstrong, Neil Armstrong | United States astronaut |
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| Gagarin, Yuri Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin | Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968) |
| Glenn, John Glenn, John Herschel Glenn Jr. | made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962 |
| Shepard, Alan Shepard, Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. | astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998) |
| Tereshkova, Valentina Tereshkova, Valentina Vladmirovna Tereshkova | Soviet cosmonaut who was the first woman in space (born in 1937) |
| Narrower | spacewalker | An astronaut who is active outside a spacecraft in outer space |
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| Broader | traveler, traveller | A person who changes location |
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| Spanish | astronauta, cosmonauta |
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| Catalan | astronauta, cosmonauta |
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| Adjectives | astronautic, astronautical | of or belonging to astronauts or the science of astronautics |
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