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) 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.

      • 2021 April 12, Gregory McNamee, “This Soviet cosmonaut was the first human in orbit — fueling the space race”, in CNN‎^[1]:

        The American astronauts in the competing Mercury program may have joked about being “Spam in a can,” but it seems clear that Korolev wanted to have plenty of cosmonauts on hand in case another rocket blew up.

      • 2025 April 19, Ashley Strickland, “An astronaut’s awe-inspiring views from life in space”, in CNN‎^[2]:

        Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 p.m. ET in a Soyuz spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, after a seven-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory. […] Space doesn't just appear dark to astronauts aboard the space station.

2. (Hong Kong) A person (typically man) working abroad away from their family.

• cosmonaut

astronaut

1. astronaut, cosmonaut

   Synonym: kosmonaut

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.). By surface analysis, astro- +‎ -naut.

• IPA^(key): [ˈastronau̯t]

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astronaut m anim (female equivalent astronautka)

1. astronaut, cosmonaut

   Synonym: kosmonaut

• “astronaut”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “astronaut”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “astronaut”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
• “astronaut”, in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2025, slovnikcestiny.cz

• 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

   De astronaut bereidt zich voor op een wandeling in de ruimte. ― The astronaut is preparing for a spacewalk.

   Als kind droomde hij ervan om astronaut te worden. ― As a child, he dreamt of becoming an astronaut.

   De training van een astronaut is intensief en uitdagend. ― The training of an astronaut is intensive and challenging.

• astronautisch

• astronautiek

• astronot

From English astronaut.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /astroˈnaut/ [as.t̪roˈna.ʊt̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -aut
  • Syllabification: as‧tro‧naut
• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /asˈtrɔnɔt/ [asˈt̪rɔ.nɔt̪̚]

astronaut (plural astronaut-astronaut or para astronaut)

1. astronaut

   Synonyms: angkasawan, antariksawan, kosmonaut

• “astronaut” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of 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. By surface analysis, astro- +‎ -naut.

• 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) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

• IPA^(key): /astronǎut/

astronàut m anim (Cyrillic spelling астрона̀ут)

1. astronaut

   Synonyms: kozmonàut, kosmonàut

From astro- +‎ -naut.

astronaut c

1. an astronaut