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cosmonaut definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person trained to travel in a spacecraft; "the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts" [syn: astronaut, spaceman, cosmonaut]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Russian kosmonavt, from Greek kosmos + Russian -navt (as in aeronavt aeronaut) Date: 1959 an astronaut of the Soviet or Russian space program

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a Soviet astronaut. Etymology: Russ. kosmonavt, as COSMOS(1), after astronaut

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cosmonauts) A cosmonaut is an astronaut from the former Soviet Union. N-COUNT