Crossword clues for cosmonaut
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cosmonaut \cosmonaut\ n. [Russ. kosmonavt from kosmos universe.] an astronaut; -- a term used by the Soviets and Russians.
Syn: astronaut, spaceman.
astronaut \as"tro*naut\ adj. a person trained to travel in a spacecraft; one who travels in a spacecraft; -- called in the Soviet Union and Russia cosmonaut.
Syn: spaceman, cosmonaut
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. An astronaut, especially a Russian or Soviet one.
WordNet
Wikipedia
- redirect Astronaut
COSMONAUT is the sixth studio album by Bump of Chicken, released on December 15, 2010. The album features the singles " R.I.P./Merry Christmas" (without "Merry Christmas"), " HAPPY", " Mahō no Ryōri ~Kimi Kara Kimi e~", and " Uchūhikōshi e no Tegami/Motorcycle".
A cosmonaut or astronaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.
Cosmonaut may also refer to:
- Cosmonaut (album), an album by Bump of Chicken
- Cosmonaut (film), a 2009 Italian coming-of-age film
- The Cosmonaut, a 2013 Spanish science fiction film
- Cosmonauts Sea, a sea of the Southern Ocean off Antarctica
- Cosmonaut Glacier, a tributary glacier in the Southern Cross Mountains, Antarctica
- Cosmonaut, a side project of Finch
Cosmonaut is a 2009 Italian coming-of-age film written and directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli. It won the Controcampo Italiano at the 66th Venice International Film Festival. It also won the Ciak d'oro for best first work.
Usage examples of "cosmonaut".
The few old members of the Cosmonaut Families who still lived in the castle had made their way through to the front hall, and set themselves down in armchairs in a loose arc around the fireplace.
Those all had partners or lovers who were from outside the notional, hereditary crew -- the cosmonaut cadre -- and who had tactfully left them to their private thoughts and conversation.
Unless he was making the same mistake as the back-slapping chap had done, he was looking sidelong at the mirrored image of the crewman and Cosmonaut Grigory Volkov.
The cosmonaut raised a hand as though to wave, then very deliberately clenched it into a fist.
His Slavic cheekbones and crew-cut fair hair had made him the most photogenic cosmonaut since Gagarin.
Above the airlock level sat the cockpit with the cosmonaut commander and astronaut second-in-command.
Unlike the others, however, it has cut a deal with the Cosmonaut Families of Mingulay to get in on the ground floor of any new trading patterns that their independent navigation may establish.
Volkov backed off more reluctantly, and Matt placed himself between the other cosmonaut and the saur.
Sveta, even though you are a pilot and cosmonaut, you are still a woman first.
Vasilisa points out parked cars with government plates with numbers from 1 to 125, indicating both the official numbers of their cosmonaut owners and the order in which that cosmonaut flew into space.
The driver holds the door while Roth and Vasilisa move quickly through the snow and into the dim museum, where they check their coats, glance up at a large mural of Yuri Gagarin, and climb a flight of stairs to the main Gagarin exhibit where a bust of the dead cosmonaut seems to stand guard over well-dusted cases of memorabilia.
The cosmonaut has trained in Houston, flown on the shuttle, and spent months on the ISS.
Most agreed that if she had been Russian she would never have passed the psychological tests required for every cosmonaut to prove suitable for space duty.
And besides, she agreed with cosmonaut Kolya that there should be a record of where they had come from.
Nikolai Petrovich Cherenkov, the cosmonaut, hero of his homeland, refugee from his homeland.