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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spacesuit
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Astronauts say hand work is very tiring in spacesuits.
▪ Eee-Eee told the squirrel to get out of my spacesuit.
▪ He could survive here, if he wished, for about an hour even without the spacesuit.
▪ I put on a spacesuit, went outside and moved to the big round door.
▪ Not to mention the peculiarity of their lack of spacesuits when crossing from a passenger pod to a ship's airlock.
▪ The robot put Buff to sleep, then put the spacesuit on him and carried him to the spaceship.
▪ The tiny cubicle was just large enough to hold one man and a spacesuit.
▪ Then, towed behind her at the end of the safety line, ap-peared a spacesuit.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spacesuit

also space-suit, 1920, from space (n.) + suit (n.).

Wiktionary
spacesuit

n. (alternative spelling of space suit English)

WordNet
spacesuit

n. a pressure suit worn by astronauts while in outer space

Usage examples of "spacesuit".

She checked her spacesuit carefully for tears in the fabric, then suited up as usual and went through the various airlocks leading into Biosafety Level Four, plugging and unplugging and replugging her air hose.

Lieutenant Peterson tugging on my spacesuit, trying to drag me away from the birdcage, back to the shuttle.

At the moment he worked drifting almost weightlessly in his spacesuit, surrounded by riches of old inscriptions, kilometers of ancient stonework, and mazes of rooms, some of them containing chests made of metal and of unknown materials, still-sealed relics of Dardanian days.

But what he knew about extravehicular activity in a spacesuit could be inscribed on the head of a pin.

Many people who saw it both on the viz scanners and with their own eyes said this was actually Klaaz, flying in space, without a spacesuit or oxygen or other extravehicular needs.

And the little monster just stood there, a tiny girl in a play spacesuit laughing up at me, two blue eyes of ridicule it seemed, and she was still holding what I could see was the Littlest Angel.

Herbie Mossman appeared to feel the need to go travelling in what looked like a bulletproof spacesuit.

In the locker room, she quickly divested herself of the black spacesuit and scrubs, and donned her outer clothing and boots.

Quickly she stripped off her clothing, donned scrubs and a spacesuit, and ran through the decon shower into Level Four, grabbing a small biocontainment hatbox from a storage closet on her way.

Quickly he stripped off his clothing and donned scrubs and spacesuit, then hurried into the decon shower.

We burst through the doors, delivered the volts, and watched the spacesuited gorillas topple like a pair of silver-clad refrigerators.

The space vacated by one lung was replaced by a closed-cycle blood oxygenating system of the kind carried in spacesuit backpacks, so that we could endure vacuum and had no need to breathe ambient air.

He pictured the two spacesuited bodies spinning silently away into space, or spiraling down until they screamed through the upper atmosphere, trailing fire like embers tossed against the curtain of the aurora.

Gregson had found a spacesuit, slain a guard, propelled himself to the shuttle and sent it crashing through Vega Jumpoff in a suicidal plunge.

Although he detested being sealed in a spacesuit in an atmosphere that stank of metal, rubber, and polymers, and the emptiness of space brought him close to nausea, neither was an unknown terror anymore.