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starsailor

starsailor noun: a member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft; a space voyager or traveller.

Noun

starsailor (plural starsailors)

  1. A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft; a space voyager or traveller.
    • He glanced to his left where the nincompoop Lotember saluted and waved to marching ranks of starsailors as if he actually knew something about running a space fleet.2000, Bill Baldwin, Canby's Legion, page 257
    • Getting back to Miles's kinship with the post-psychedelic starsailors and aquanauts, the music of Dark Magus, On the Corner, Agharta, et al. offers a drastic intensification of rock's three most radical aspects: space, timbre and groove […]2011, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop
    Synonyms:
    spacefarer

Synonyms of starsailor

Forms of starsailor

pluralstarsailors

Origin of starsailor

From star + sailor.

Questions about starsailor

What does starsailor mean?
Starsailor means a member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft; a space voyager or traveller.
What part of speech is starsailor?
Starsailor is a noun.
What is the plural of starsailor?
The plural of starsailor is starsailors.

Words near starsailor in the dictionary

  1. Stars of Life
  2. stars of Vergina
  3. stars the glaze
  4. stars up
  5. starsailing
  6. starsailor
  7. starsailors
  8. starscape
  9. starscapes
  10. starseed
  11. starseeds

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