astronaut

CEFRB1

/ˈæstɹəˌnɔːt/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A person trained to travel and work in space.
02
noun
Extra detail
A person (typically man) working abroad away from their family.

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At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
An American space traveler, when contrasted against equivalent terms from other countries such as cosmonaut, taikonaut, spationaut, and vyomanaut.

In context

Though from different social, economic, and political worlds, the astronauts and cosmonauts had much in common, both as professionals and human beings.
The American astronauts in the competing Mercury program may have joked about being “Spam in a can,” but it seems clear that Korolev wanted to have plenty of cosmonauts on hand in case another rocket blew up.

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Though from different social, economic, and political worlds, the astronauts and cosmonauts had much in common, both as professionals and human beings.
2013, Edward Clinton Ezell, Linda Neuman Ezell, The Partnership: A NASA History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Courier Corporation, →ISBN
The American astronauts in the competing Mercury program may have joked about being “Spam in a can,” but it seems clear that Korolev wanted to have plenty of cosmonauts on hand in case another rocket blew up.
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 Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, after a seven-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory. […] Space doesn't just appear dark to astronauts aboard the space station.
2025 April 19, Ashley Strickland, “An astronaut’s awe-inspiring views from life in space”, in CNN

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From astro- + -naut. Coined from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”) and ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”).