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spationaut

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From French spationaute. spatio- + -naut.

noun spationauts

  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.
  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]
  3. An astronaut, regardless of nationality. How many spationauts are there?

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noun a French astronaut

中文太空人 tàikōng rén, 宇航員 /宇航员 yǔháng yuán, 航天員 /航天员 hángtiān yuán, 宇宙航行員 /宇宙航行员 yǔzhòu hángxíng yuán, 太空飛行員 /太空飞行员 tàikōng fēixíngyuán
Françaisspationaute
Românăspaționaut
Русскийспатиона́вт spationávt
العربيةسبَشُنَات

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@misc{spationaut_2026,
  title = {spationaut},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/spationaut},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}