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NEIL ARMSTRONG
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• NEIL ARMSTRONG (noun)
The noun NEIL ARMSTRONG has 1 sense:
1. United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)
Familiarity information: NEIL ARMSTRONG used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Armstrong; Neil Armstrong
Instance hypernyms:
astronaut; cosmonaut; spaceman (a person trained to travel in a spacecraft)
Context examples
Neil Armstrong stepped on the surface of the moon technically the next day, July 21, at 2:56 UTC.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Running low on fuel, Commander Neil Armstrong only had a few minutes to find a suitable spot to land, but he was finding only rocky terrain that was inappropriate to settle down on.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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