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    SPACEMAN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A person trained to travel in a spacecraftplay

    Example:

    the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts

    Synonyms:

    astronaut; cosmonaut; spaceman

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

    Hypernyms ("spaceman" is a kind of...):

    traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "spaceman"):

    spacewalker (an astronaut who is active outside a spacecraft in outer space)

    Instance hyponyms:

    Armstrong; Neil Armstrong (United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-))

    Gagarin; Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Yuri Gagarin (Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968))

    Glenn; John Glenn; John Herschel Glenn Jr. (made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921-))

    Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.; Alan Shepard; Shepard (astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998))

    Tereshkova; Valentina Tereshkova; Valentina Vladmirovna Tereshkova (Soviet cosmonaut who was the first woman in space (born in 1937))

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