Associations to the word «Astronaut»

Pictures for the word «Astronaut»

Wiktionary

ASTRONAUT, noun. A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
ASTRONAUT, noun. (Hong Kong) A returnee who frequently flies back and forth between Hong Kong and his/her adopted home country.
ASTRONAUT ICE CREAM, noun. Ice cream that has had most of the water removed from it by a freeze-drying process and been sealed in a pouch, and requires no refrigeration.

Dictionary definition

ASTRONAUT, noun. A person trained to travel in a spacecraft; "the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats