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Noun: astronaut  'as-tru,not
  1. A person trained to travel in a spacecraft
    "the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts";
    - spaceman, cosmonaut, spacewoman

Derived forms: astronauts

Type of: traveler [US], traveller [Brit, Cdn]

Encyclopedia: Astronaut