cosmonaut
/ˈkɒz.məˌnɔːt//ˈkɑz.məˌnɔt/
cosmonaut noun: an astronaut, especially a Russian or Soviet one.
Noun
cosmonaut (plural cosmonauts)
- An astronaut, especially a Russian or Soviet one.
- Khrushchev’s answer came 60 years ago, on April 12, 1961, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin circled the Earth aboard a spacecraft called Vostok 1.2021 April 12, Gregory McNamee, “This Soviet cosmonaut was the first human in orbit — fueling the space race”, in CNN
- 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...2025 April 19, Ashley Strickland, “An astronaut’s awe-inspiring views from life in space”, in CNN
cosmonaut meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Tagalog
cosmonaut in Hindi
- an astronaut, especially a Russian or Soviet one — see also astronaut
- अंतरिक्ष यात्री antrikṣ yātrī
cosmonaut in Urdu
- خلاباز
cosmonaut in Malayalam
- astronaut, spaceman, spacewoman
- ബഹിരാകാശസഞ്ചാരി, ബഹിരാകാശസഞ്ചാരിണി, ബഹിരാകാശ യാത്രികൻ, ശൂന്യാകാശയാത്രികൻ, ബാഹ്യാകാശയാത്രികൻ, ബഹിരാകാശയാത്ര ചെയ്യുന്നയാൾ
cosmonaut in Tagalog
- an astronaut, especially a Russian or Soviet one — see also astronaut
- malimayaw
More languagesFewer languages
- cosmonaut in Arabic
- رَجُل فَضَاء rajul faḍāʔ, رَائِد فَضَاء rāʔid faḍāʔ, مَلَّاح فَضَائِيّ mallāḥ faḍāʔiyy
- cosmonaut in Malay
- kosmonaut
- cosmonaut in Persian
- فضانورد fazânavard
- cosmonaut in Thai
- นักบินอวกาศ nák-bin-à-wá-gàat
- cosmonaut in Vietnamese
- nhà du hành vũ trụ, phi hành gia
Forms of cosmonaut
| plural | cosmonauts |
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Origin of cosmonaut
Borrowed from Russian космона́вт (kosmonávt), from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “universe”) + ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”). By surface analysis, cosmo- + -naut.
Words formed from cosmonaut
Questions about cosmonaut
- What does cosmonaut mean?
- Cosmonaut means an astronaut, especially a Russian or Soviet one.
- What is cosmonaut in Hindi?
- Cosmonaut in Hindi is अंतरिक्ष यात्री (antrikṣ yātrī). See Cosmonaut meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cosmonaut?
- Cosmonaut is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cosmonaut?
- Cosmonaut is pronounced /ˈkɒz.məˌnɔːt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cosmonaut?
- The plural of cosmonaut is cosmonauts.
Words near cosmonaut in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cosmonaut (page history and authors); cosmonaut (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cosmonaut (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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