Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Russian or Soviet astronaut.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an
astronaut ; -- a term used by the Soviets and Russians.
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- noun An
astronaut , especially aRussian orSoviet one.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.
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Once the cosmonaut is in then the appendix is rolled up and secured with strong elastic bands.
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The Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft will dock with the ISS on Sunday, where the crew will join Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, U.S. astronaut Timothy Creamer, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
RIA Novosti 2010
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The Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft will dock with the ISS on Sunday, where the crew will join Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, U.S. astronaut Timothy Creamer, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
RIA Novosti 2010
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The Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft will dock with the ISS on Sunday, where the crew will join Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, U.S. astronaut Timothy Creamer, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
RIA Novosti 2010
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The Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft will dock with the ISS on Sunday, where the crew will join Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, U.S. astronaut Timothy Creamer, and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
RIA Novosti 2010
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But the cosmonaut was a woman, a fact that Kinsman did not know until he had pulled the airhose out of her helmet, suffocating her.
Ten Minutes, That's It Benjamin Kral 2010
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I was inspecting their satellite ... how'd I know their cosmonaut was a scared kid?
Ten Minutes, That's It Benjamin Kral 2010
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Later on in the conversation, when Nicole told Dr. Hakamatsu that the unexplained data had actually come from the probes inside one of his countrymen, namely cosmonaut-scientist Takagishi, the usually restrained engineer had actually shouted into the phone.
Rama Revisited Clarke, Arthur C. 1989
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According to Wired, the astronaut is actually a cosmonaut, which is just a Russian version of an astronaut.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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