cosmonaut
pronunciation
How to pronounce cosmonaut in British English:
UK [ˈkɒzmənɔːt]
How to pronounce cosmonaut in American English:
US [ˈkɑːzmənɔːt]
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- Noun:
- a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
Word Origin
- cosmonaut (n.)
- 1959, Englishing of Russian kosmonavt, ultimately from Greek kosmos (see cosmos) + nautes "sailor" (see naval).
Example
- 1. Soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin became the world 's first space traveler in 1961 .
- 2. Then others arrived , realizing he was the cosmonaut they had just heard about on the radio .
- 3. I wandered out to the front of the station and spotted a bizarre silver statue of vvt ertvuntz , the first ( and only ) mongolian cosmonaut .
- 4. The longest any human has stayed in space so far is about 13 months , held by a russian cosmonaut .
- 5. Fifty years have elapsed since soviet cosmonaut yuri gagarin lit the blue touchpaper on the era of manned spaceflight .