astronaut

From 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/
  • (cot–caught merger), (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈæstɹəˌnɑt/

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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, spationaut, 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 their adopted home country.

• cosmonaut

astronaut ?

1. astronaut, cosmonaut

   Synonym: kosmonaut

• IPA^(key): [ˈastronau̯t]

astronaut m

1. astronaut, cosmonaut

   Synonym: 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, feminine astronaute)

1. a (male) astronaut [from early 1950s]

   Synonyms: kosmonaut, ruimtevaarder

• astronautisch

• astronautiek

Borrowed from English astronaut.

• IPA^(key): /astronau̯t̚/, /astronɔt̚/
• Hyphenation: as‧tro‧naut

astronaut (first-person possessive astronautku, second-person possessive astronautmu, third-person possessive astronautnya)

1. astronaut.

   Synonyms: angkasawan, antariksawan, kosmonaut

• “astronaut” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

From English astronaut.

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

1. an astronaut

   Synonym: romfarer

• “astronaut” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From English astronaut.

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

1. an astronaut

   Synonym: 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

   Synonym: cosmonaut

• taikonaut

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

• IPA^(key): /astronǎut/

astronàut m (Cyrillic spelling астрона̀ут)

1. astronaut

   Synonyms: kozmonàut, kosmonàut

From astro- +‎ -naut.

astronaut c

1. an astronaut