astronaut
IPA: ˈæstrʌnɑt
noun
- 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.
- (Hong Kong) A person (typically man) working abroad away from their family.
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Examples of "astronaut" in Sentences
- The astronauts agree to return to Earth.
- This set is the flagship of the astronauts.
- The heartbroken astronaut shrugs and walks off.
- The astronaut was in fact an officer in the Navy.
- The Astronaut Streets are the southernmost section of Kirby.
- By some, SIDSPACE is playfully known as the ablative astronaut.
- He may want to be a pianist or an astronaut or an oceanographer.
- The first Educator Astronauts were in the Astronaut class of 2004.
- The warhead part open use to catches the spacecraft and the astronaut.
- It is primarily used for astronaut training and systems familiarization.