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Astronaut

Astronaut

See also: astronaut

German

Noun

Astronaut m (genitive Astronauten, plural Astronauten)

  1. astronaut

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astronaut

astronaut

See also: Astronaut

English

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi.

Noun

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 and taikonaut.
      • 2013, Edward Clinton Ezell, Linda Neuman Ezell, The Partnership: A NASA History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Courier Corporation (ISBN 9780486135915)
        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 his/her adopted home country.

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Albanian

Noun

astronaut

  1. astronaut, cosmonaut

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Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /astronavt/, [asd̥ʁoˈnɑwˀd̥]

Noun

astronaut c (singular definite astronauten, plural indefinite astronauter)

  1. astronaut

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

astronaut m (plural astronauten, diminutive astronautje n)

  1. astronaut

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English astronaut

Noun

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

  1. an astronaut

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  • romfarer

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English astronaut

Noun

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

  1. an astronaut

Synonyms

  • romfarar

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from French astronaute, English astronaut.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /as.troˈnaut/

Noun

astronaut m (plural astronauți, feminine equivalent astronaută)

  1. astronaut

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /astronǎut/

Noun

astronàut m (Cyrillic spelling астрона̀ут)

  1. astronaut

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Swedish

Etymology

astro- + -naut

Noun

astronaut c

  1. an astronaut

Declension

Inflection of astronaut 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative astronaut astronauten astronauter astronauterna
Genitive astronauts astronautens astronauters astronauternas

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