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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spaceman
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Von Daniken, like others of his creed, believes that evidence of spacemen already exists on Earth.
▪ For instance, mankind could be replaced by humanity, craftsman by artisan, forefathers by ancestors, spaceman by astronaut and so on.
▪ I think all you would-be spacemen are just little boys at heart, wanting to play an elaborate game.
▪ What do you do if you see a spaceman?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
spaceman

spaceman \space"man`\, n.

  1. an astronaut.

  2. an intelligent creature from outer space; an extraterrestrial; -- a fictional or hypothetical being, never actually observed.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spaceman

1942 in the astronaut sense, from space (n.) + man (n.). Earlier it meant "journalist paid by the length of his copy" (1892). Spacewoman recorded from 1960.

Wiktionary
spaceman

n. 1 an astronaut (in Eastern European countries ''a cosmonaut'') 2 a male astronaut

WordNet
spaceman

n. a person trained to travel in a spacecraft; "the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts" [syn: astronaut, cosmonaut]

Wikipedia
Spaceman (1997 film)

Spaceman is a 1997 science fiction/ comedy film from Palm Pictures. Filmed in Chicago, it tells of a man adjusting to life on Earth, with one problem: he has been trained only to be a killer since he was abducted as a toddler.

Spaceman (Babylon Zoo song)

"Spaceman" is a song by British band Babylon Zoo. It was released in January 1996 as the lead single from their debut album The Boy with the X-Ray Eyes. Featuring heavily distorted guitars and metallic, robotic sounding vocals, it went straight to Number 1 on the UK Singles Chart on 21 January 1996, after being featured in a popular Levi's jeans advertisement in December 1995, and became the fastest selling single in the United Kingdom in over thirty years, since The Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love".

"Spaceman" was the seventh song to reach number one in the UK after being featured in an advert for Levi's.

Spaceman (The Killers song)

"Spaceman" is a song by American rock band The Killers. The song was released as the second single from the band's third studio album Day & Age on November 4, 2008, as a digital download on iTunes, and as 7" and promo CD in the US, Canada and UK. It has been released to radio in Australia and has gone into regular rotation on Triple J. This song was number 17 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008. The song has been used regularly as the opening song during the band's tour.

Spaceman

Spaceman commonly refers to:

  • Astronaut or cosmonaut, a person trained to operate or serve aboard a spacecraft

Spaceman may also refer to:

Spaceman (Bif Naked song)

"Spaceman" is the first single from Canadian singer Bif Naked's third album, I Bificus. The song peaked at #36 on Canada's RPM singles chart.

Spaceman (comics)

Spaceman is a nine-issue, science fiction comic book miniseries written by Brian Azzarello, illustrated by Eduardo Risso, and published by Vertigo. Azzarello and Risso previously collaborated for more than ten years on the Vertigo series 100 Bullets, as well as other projects such as the Flashpoint miniseries Batman: Knight of Vengeance.

Spaceman (Harry Nilsson song)

"Spaceman" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, released on his 1972 album, Son of Schmilsson.

One of the highlights on Son of Schmilsson, with its dramatic opening fanfare and a cross between folk with a heavy R&B rhythm, the song explains the desire and downfall of the narrator, who wished to be a spaceman and now wants to go back to Earth but is stuck in space.

The song was one of the three Nilsson's songs that became a hit of the year, the other two being "Remember (Christmas)" and "You're Breaking My Heart". ( "Joy" became a minor hit)

The song was covered by American band The Roches on the 1995 tribute album For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson.

Spaceman (2016 film)

Spaceman is an upcoming biographical film about former Major League Baseball pitcher Bill "Spaceman" Lee written and directed by Brett Rapkin and starring Josh Duhamel, as Lee.

Usage examples of "spaceman".

From all corners of the quadrangle, the slidewalks carried Earthworms in their green uniforms, upper-class cadets in deep blue, enlisted spacemen in scarlet red, and Solar Guard officers in their striking uniforms of black and gold.

The force of the action only flattened Koa against the ceiling, but the hapless spaceman shot forward head first and landed with a clang against the bulkhead.

There was a lot he had to learn about dealing with spacemen, a lot Koa evidently knew very well indeed.

Avosinger Pajunggeesh, the tale of an extraordinarily maladroit but lucky spaceman.

Almost all of them raised their mugs to the spaceman and spacewoman in salutation.

Then, according to the former longshoreman, the spaceman started up some stairs, which led into the underside of the saucer.

Looking more like a spaceman than an anthropologist, I nodded to the guard, circled the barricade, and crossed to the temporary morgue for an update.

Although he had never made a deep study of the arthropodal race he knew, as did all spacemen, which Terran luxuries were appreciated by the Shaara.

Around him, the spacemen were settling in their acceleration seats or snapping belts to safety hooks.

He looks very small against the massive filigree of the birdcage, a white plastic spaceman doll floating in front of a shifting, faceted fretwork of spun glass.

You study the background this so-called Esteeler spaceman Metion Chongjin gives us.

The ufologists have churned out scores of books based on the premise that spacemen visited Earth and gave mankind a helping hand in those distant days.

Phillips could not decide when he had first known it Perhaps it had been just a few minutes ago as he had pleaded with Grant, not a spacemen but a displanted Earthman, to spare the Earth.

Only two or three daring spacemen had ever ventured on nebular explorations, into a smaller counter-space lying on the route to Proxima, and they had never emerged.

As he came around the last trailer, a spaceman stepped out in front of him, startling the hell out of him, especially since the spaceman was holding an M16 rifle at port arms.