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spationauts

spationauts is the plural of spationaut.

Meaning of spationaut

Noun

spationaut (plural spationauts)

  1. A French astronaut.
    • Long term cosmonauts Gennadiy Manakov and Aleksandr Polishchuk, who arrived at Mir on Jan. 24th, will be flying French Spationaut Jean-Pierre Haignere in the older Soyuz TM-16 capsule.1993, Glenn Chapman, “Russian/French crew set to leave Mir space station”, in sci.space (Usenet)
  2. A European astronaut, specifically one representing ESA.
    • The next flight to the ISS is scheduled for April 19th and will be composed of Russian cosmonaut Guennady Padalka, American astronaut Michael Fincke and ESA Dutch spationaut André Kuipers. [ESA, AFP 04/02/2004, Air & Cosmos 04/09/2004]2004, “EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY HOPES TO SEND TWO ASTRONAUTS TO THE ISS IN 2005”, in France in Space, archived from the original on 06 May 2004
  3. An astronaut, regardless of nationality.
    • How many spationauts are there?1997, Aaron Jelinek, “spationauts”, in sci.space.science (Usenet)

Questions about spationauts

What is spationauts the plural of?
Spationauts is the plural of spationaut.

Words near spationauts in the dictionary

  1. spatiokinetic
  2. spatiokinetics
  3. spatiomap
  4. spatiomaps
  5. spationaut
  6. spationauts
  7. spatiospectral
  8. spatiostructural
  9. spatiotemporal
  10. spatiotemporality
  11. spatiotemporally

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