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chrononaut

chrononaut noun: a time-traveller.

Noun

chrononaut (plural chrononauts)

  1. (dated) A time-traveller.
    • The honour of the final great mistake will go to David Powers, Scientist Chrononaut.1972, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, volume 46, page 119
    • The conventional view of time travel, however, has the ‘chrononauts’ travelling backwards and forwards in time. But in a more restricted sense we are all chrononauts, on a one-way fixed-speed journey into the future.1999, John Guy Porter, Patrick Moore, Yearbook of Astronomy, page 146

Forms of chrononaut

pluralchrononauts

Origin of chrononaut

From chrono- + -naut, modelled on astronaut and/or cosmonaut.

Questions about chrononaut

What does chrononaut mean?
Chrononaut means a time-traveller.
What part of speech is chrononaut?
Chrononaut is a noun.
What is the plural of chrononaut?
The plural of chrononaut is chrononauts.

Words near chrononaut in the dictionary

  1. chronometry
  2. chronomodulated
  3. chronomodulation
  4. chronomodulations
  5. chronon
  6. chrononaut
  7. chrononauts
  8. chrononic
  9. chrononomy
  10. chrononormativities
  11. chrononormativity

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