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語源

From astro- +‎ -naut. Coined from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”) and ναύτης (naútēs, “sailor”).

発音

• enPR: ăsʹtrənôt'
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈæstɹəˌnɔːt/
  • (General American) IPA: /ˈæstɹəˌnɔt/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈæstɹəˌnɑt/

名詞

astronaut (plural astronauts)

1. A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft that travels beyond Earth's atmosphere, or someone trained to serve that purpose.
   1. An American space traveler, when contrasted against equivalent terms from other countries such as cosmonaut, taikonaut, spationaut, and vyomanaut.
      • 2013, Edward Clinton Ezell, Linda Neuman Ezell, The Partnership: A NASA History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Courier Corporation, →ISBN:

        Though from different social, economic, and political worlds, the astronauts and cosmonauts had much in common, both as professionals and human beings.

      • 2021 April 12, Gregory McNamee, “This Soviet cosmonaut was the first human in orbit — fueling the space race”, in CNN‎:

        The American astronauts in the competing Mercury program may have joked about being “Spam in a can,” but it seems clear that Korolev wanted to have plenty of cosmonauts on hand in case another rocket blew up.

      • 2025 April 19, Ashley Strickland, “An astronaut’s awe-inspiring views from life in space”, in CNN‎:

        Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night from the International Space Station. Pettit, who turned 70 on Sunday, landed at 9:20 p.m. ET in a Soyuz spacecraft with Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, after a seven-month stay aboard the orbiting laboratory. […] Space doesn't just appear dark to astronauts aboard the space station.

2. (Hong Kong) A person (typically man) working abroad away from their family.

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• cosmonaut

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