space marine

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space marine

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Named after the marines, infantry soldiers who serve in coastal areas to assist naval forces.

The earliest usage of this term was from Bob Olsen's short story "Captain Brink of the Space Marines" in 1932, in which the titular soldiers rescue celebrity twins on Saturn's moon, Titan.

noun space marines

a soldier who fights in outer space or extraterrestrial worlds.

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noun science fiction super-soldiers

Русский	косми́ческий деса́нт kosmíčeskij desánt, космодеса́нт kosmodesánt

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@misc{space_marine_2026,
  title = {space marine},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/space%20marine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}