COSMONAUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cosmonaut mean? 

• COSMONAUT (noun)
  The noun COSMONAUT has 1 sense:

1. a person trained to travel in a spacecraft

  Familiarity information: COSMONAUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COSMONAUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person trained to travel in a spacecraft

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

astronaut; cosmonaut; spaceman

Context example:

the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts

Hypernyms ("cosmonaut" is a kind of...):

traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cosmonaut"):

spacewalker (an astronaut who is active outside a spacecraft in outer space)

Instance hyponyms:

Armstrong; Neil Armstrong (United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-))

Gagarin; Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Yuri Gagarin (Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968))

Glenn; John Glenn; John Herschel Glenn Jr. (made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921-))

Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.; Alan Shepard; Shepard (astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998))

Tereshkova; Valentina Tereshkova; Valentina Vladmirovna Tereshkova (Soviet cosmonaut who was the first woman in space (born in 1937))

 Context examples 

Leonov, also known as "cosmonaut No. 11", was part of the Soviet Union's original team of cosmonauts.

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)

On October 11, 2019, Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, announced the death of cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)