Meaning

2 senses
  1. (childish, informal)An astronaut, often a male astronaut.

    I want to be a spaceman when I grow up.

    Raumfahrer, Weltraumfahrer, Astronaut

    космона́втkosmonávt, астрона́втastronávt

    a male person trained to travel in a spacecraft

  2. (informal)A humanoid extraterrestrial.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Ships and helicopters left for the spacemen's rescue.

    deSchiffe und Hubschrauber machten sich auf den Weg, um die Raumfahrer zu retten.

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  2. Tom is a spaceman.

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  3. The spaceman looked out of the space shuttle and saw a little green spaceman in a spaceship.

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  4. The seven spacemen plan to install a third pair of solar wings and another large module to the International Space Station.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
astronaut:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
astronaut:

Forms

plural: spacemen
Singularspaceman
Pluralspacemen

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Synonyms

2 synonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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