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moonnaut

moonnaut noun: someone trained to live and work on a moon; an explorer of a moon.

Noun

moonnaut (plural moonnauts)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Someone trained to live and work on a moon; an explorer of a moon
    • An outstanding lineup of big-name speakers from the profession (and maybe a "Moonnaut").1969, The Quill, Volume 57, Society of Professional Journalists, page 38
    • Has anybody remarked that Moonnaut Armstrong wasn't really the first?1969, Harvard Bulletin: Volume 72, Digitized edition, Harvard Bulletin, published 2009, page 9

Examples of moonnaut in a sentence

  • The National Air Space Museum in Washington acquired Raquel Forner's "The Return of the Moonnaut", chosen because of the artist's originality in vizualizing man's conquests in the outer space.1975, Galería Wildenstein, Art in the Argentine, Digitized edition, published 2008:
  • Thats about as good as Your Moon Colony of 1000 Moonnauts in 8 Years!!2012 March 3, comment, “Gingrich: Interior Sec Salazar Should Be Replaced Along with Energy Sec Chu”, in Free Republic, retrieved...

Forms of moonnaut

pluralmoonnauts

Origin of moonnaut

From moon + -naut.

Questions about moonnaut

What does moonnaut mean?
Moonnaut means someone trained to live and work on a moon; an explorer of a moon.
How do you use moonnaut in a sentence?
The National Air Space Museum in Washington acquired Raquel Forner's "The Return of the Moonnaut", chosen because of the artist's originality in vizualizing man's conquests in the outer space.
What part of speech is moonnaut?
Moonnaut is a noun.
What is the plural of moonnaut?
The plural of moonnaut is moonnauts.

Words near moonnaut in the dictionary

  1. moonman
  2. moonmen
  3. moonmilk
  4. moonmoon
  5. moonmoons
  6. moonnaut
  7. moonnauts
  8. Moonpar
  9. moonpath
  10. moonpaths
  11. moonphase

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