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UK
/spˈeɪsmən/
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NOUN
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a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts
How To Use spaceman In A Sentence
- A native, popeyed with terror, had dropped to his knees in front of the weird - looking "spaceman. Golden State
- And there's Bill Lee, a.k.a. "Spaceman," an iconoclastic cult hero to college-age Boston fans in the late '70s, a quintessentially flaky southpaw who once boasted of sprinkling marijuana on his breakfast cereal -- before the buttoned-down Red Sox brass exiled him to the Montreal Expos, in whose uniform he is (sadly) pictured in the card collection. FOUND: Lots and lots of baseball cards
- The result is that an ampul of any anti-agathic, even the least efficient ones, that a spaceman thinks he can spare can be sold for the price the seller asks. Cities In Flight
- For instance, mankind could be replaced by humanity, craftsman by artisan, forefathers by ancestors, spaceman by astronaut and so on.
- The spaceman vanished into an inner room and reappeared in a moment lugging a plastic case called a space pack, or "spack" for short. Rip Foster in Ride the Gray Planet
- The spaceman flew through the galaxy at the speed of light.
- In a Darkover novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley, I recall a scene where a spaceman from Earth is talking to an aristocrat from the pre-industrial native culture. INTERVIEW: John C. Wright
- The would-be spaceman took his 37 ft-high Starchaser rocket to Stockport Grammar School to encourage youngsters to follow his lead and take up engineering.
- Come on, ladies -- and spaceman -- looks like we're on our way to the greatest service station in the world. GOING OUT
- It is thought that he was pretending to be a spaceman.