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spationaut en · NOUN

Etymology

From French spationaute. spatio- + -naut.

Meanings

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:
   • Considering the weight problems that Hermes ran into, the astronauts probably thought that they were lucky to have seats, much less ejection seats, rather than slings to sit in. Something about an ESA spationaut putting their ass into a sling is unappealing. 2005, Pat Flannery, “Son of Little Joe II”, in sci.space.policy (Usenet):
3. An astronaut, regardless of nationality.
   • How many spationauts are there? 1997, Aaron Jelinek, “spationauts”, in sci.space.science (Usenet):

Forms

Relateds

cosmonaut · taikonaut · astronaut · vyomanaut

Translations (12)

cmn 宇航員 /宇航员 (a French astronaut) · ro spaționaut (a French astronaut) · cmn 航天員 /航天员 (a French astronaut) · fr spationaute (a French astronaut) · yue 太空人 (a French astronaut) · nv wótááhgóó ałnááʼáłtʼahí (a French astronaut) · nan-hbl 太空人 (a French astronaut) · cmn 宇宙航行員 /宇宙航行员 (a French astronaut) · cmn 太空飛行員 /太空飞行员 (a French astronaut) · ar سبَشُنَات (a French astronaut) · ru спатиона́вт (a French astronaut) · cmn 太空人 (a French astronaut)