different between astronaut vs spaceman

English

Etymology

From astro- +? -naut. Coined from Ancient Greek ?????? (ástron, “star”) and ?????? (naút?s, “sailor”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?s?tr?nôt'
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æst???n??t/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?æst???n?t/, /?æ?t???n?t/
  • (Canada) IPA^(key): /?æst???n?t/

Noun

astronaut (plural astronauts)

1. A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
   1. An American space traveler, when contrasted against equivalent terms from other countries such as cosmonaut, taikonaut, spationaut, and vyomanaut.
      • 2013, Edward Clinton Ezell, Linda Neuman Ezell, The Partnership: A NASA History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Courier Corporation ?ISBN

        Though from different social, economic, and political worlds, the astronauts and cosmonauts had much in common, both as professionals and human beings.

2. (Hong Kong) A returnee who frequently flies back and forth between Hong Kong and their adopted home country.

Synonyms

• cosmonaut

Hyponyms

• astronautess
• spationaut
• taikonaut
• vyomanaut

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Albanian

Noun

astronaut ?

1. astronaut, cosmonaut

   Synonym: kosmonaut

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?astronau?t]

Noun

astronaut m

1. astronaut, cosmonaut

   Synonym: kosmonaut

Related terms

• astronautika

Further reading

• astronaut in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• astronaut in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /astronavt/, [asd??o?n?w?d?]

Noun

astronaut c (singular definite astronauten, plural indefinite astronauter)

1. astronaut

Inflection

Related terms

• kosmonaut

Further reading

• astronaut on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English astronaut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.stro??n?u?t/, /??s.tro??n?u?t/
• Hyphenation: as?tro?naut
• Rhymes: -?u?t

Noun

astronaut m (plural astronauten, diminutive astronautje n, feminine astronaute)

1. a (male) astronaut [from early 1950s]

   Synonyms: kosmonaut, ruimtevaarder

Derived terms

• astronautisch

Related terms

• astronautiek

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English astronaut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /astronau?t?/, /astron?t?/
• Hyphenation: as?tro?naut

Noun

astronaut (first-person possessive astronautku, second-person possessive astronautmu, third-person possessive astronautnya)

1. astronaut.

   Synonyms: angkasawan, antariksawan, kosmonaut

Further reading

• “astronaut” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English astronaut.

Noun

astronaut m (definite singular astronauten, indefinite plural astronauter, definite plural astronautene)

1. an astronaut

   Synonym: romfarer

References

• “astronaut” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English astronaut.

Noun

astronaut m (definite singular astronauten, indefinite plural astronautar, definite plural astronautane)

1. an astronaut

   Synonym: romfarar

References

• “astronaut” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French astronaute, English astronaut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.tro?naut/

Noun

astronaut m (plural astronau?i, feminine equivalent astronaut?)

1. astronaut

   Synonym: cosmonaut

Declension

Related terms

See also

• taikonaut

References

• astronaut in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /astron?ut/

Noun

astronàut m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????)

1. astronaut

   Synonyms: kozmonàut, kosmonàut

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From astro- +? -naut.

Noun

astronaut c

1. an astronaut

Declension

See also

English

Etymology

space +? -man

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?spe?s?mæn/

Noun

spaceman (plural spacemen)

1. (informal) An astronaut, often a male astronaut.

   I want to be a spaceman when I grow up.

Synonyms

(astronaut):

• astronaut
• rocketman

(male astronaut):

• rocketman

Antonyms

• (male astronaut): spacewoman

Hypernyms

(male astronaut):

• astronaut
• rocketman

Hyponyms

(astronaut):

• taikonaut (Chinese space program)
• cosmonaut (Soviet and Russian space programs)
• spationaut (European space programs)
• spacewoman (female astronaut)

Derived terms

• (astronaut): spacewoman

Related terms

• spacewoman

Translations

Anagrams

• campanes, man-scape, manscape