lunarnaut

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English

Etymology

From lunar +‎ -naut.

Pronunciation

Noun

lunarnaut (plural lunarnauts)

  1. Someone who travels to the Moon.
    • 1965, ‘The Kamikosmonaut’, Time, 26 Feb 2006:
      Kanashima returns to Japan and, as the space race develops over the years, figures out that the U.S. and Russia are bogged down by the problem of how to get the lunarnaut back to earth.
    • 2006 December 7, Tim Radford, The Guardian:
      The moon's poles are the only spots in permanent sunshine (days and nights of moon last 14 earth days), which means that the lunarnauts’ solar panels could provide a permanent power supply.
    • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 205:
      Still, the experience was poisoned for me by having to watch Richard Nixon smirking as he babbled to the lunar-nauts by some closed-circuit link.
    Synonyms: lunanaut, moonnaut

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