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cosmonauts

cosmonauts is the plural of cosmonaut.

Meaning of cosmonaut

Noun

cosmonaut (plural cosmonauts)

  1. 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

Questions about cosmonauts

What is cosmonauts the plural of?
Cosmonauts is the plural of cosmonaut.

Words near cosmonauts in the dictionary

  1. cosmometry
  2. cosmonaut
  3. cosmonautic
  4. cosmonautical
  5. cosmonautics
  6. cosmonauts
  7. cosmonette
  8. cosmonettes
  9. cosmonuclide
  10. cosmonuclides
  11. cosmoparticle

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