astronaut
pronunciation
How to pronounce astronaut in British English:
UK [ˈæstrənɔːt]
How to pronounce astronaut in American English:
US [ˈæstrənɔːt]
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- Noun:
- a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
Word Origin
- astronaut (n.)
- coined 1929 in science fiction, popularized from 1961 by U.S. space program, from astro- + nautes "sailor" (see naval). French astronautique (adj.) had been coined 1927 by "J.H. Rosny," pen name of Belgian-born science fiction writer Joseph Henri Honoré Boex (1856-1940) on model of aéronautique, and Astronaut was used in 1880 as the name of a fictional spaceship by English writer Percy Greg (1836-1889) in "Across the Zodiac."
Example
- 1. Former nasa astronaut ed lu heads the foundation .
- 2. In some spots , decades-old astronaut footprints are still visible .
- 3. Astronaut neil a. armstrong took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera .
- 4. It was the first public viewing of the firm 's astronaut a4 milking system .
- 5. Then I asked him if he thought I might make a good astronaut .