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单词 saucerian
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saucerianadj.n.

Brit. /sɔːˈsɪərɪən/, U.S. /sɔˈsɪriən/, /sɑˈsɪriən/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: saucer n., -ian suffix.
Etymology: < saucer n. + -ian suffix. Compare slightly earlier flying saucer n. at flying n. Compounds 2.
A. adj.
Of or relating to flying saucers, or to belief in their existence or in human contact with extraterrestrial beings. Cf. saucer n. 6.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [adjective] > relating to flying saucer or UFO
saucerian1950
UFOish1973
1950 Jrnl. Brit. Interplanetary Soc. 9 300 This passage..surely deserves immortality. We..happen to believe it is true—but perhaps not in the saucerian sense that the author intended.
1965 New Society 9 Sept. 14/4 The definition of the situation in occult terms began in 1950 with the publication of..the first saucerian book.
2007 D. P. Thurs Sci. Talk iv. 131 Perhaps the most interesting and unorthodox aspect of the UFO phenomenon during the 1950s involved the ‘contactee’ or ‘saucerian’ movement.
B. n.
1. An extraterrestrial being imagined or believed to be the pilot or occupant of a flying saucer.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > astronaut or traveller in space > traveller in imaginary spacecraft
saucerman1949
saucerian1950
1950 F. Scully Behind Flying Saucers xv. 167 The Saucerians have developed their own ships to where they can create a magnetic flux and move at any speed—from zero to 282,000 miles per second.
1973 C. Sagan Cosmic Connection (1975) vi. 43 The category of contact story, now quite fashionable in some UFO enthusiast circles, of sexual contact between human and saucerian..must be relegated to the realm of improbable fantasy.
2004 P. Sagan Ball Lightning iv. 72 He disproved radical claims about Area 51 and MJ-12, questioned crop circles, and proved crashed desert saucerians were frauds.
2. A person who believes in the existence of flying saucers or in human contact with extraterrestrial beings.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > flying saucer or UFO > believer in flying saucers
saucerian1955
1955 Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil 7 Aug. a1/1 Such houses give the ‘literary saucerians’ a chance, if they are willing to put up a couple of thousand dollars, to see their stuff in print.
2010 B. Allan Heretics xix. 116 The Saucerians unquestioningly accept that we have been, and continue to be, visited by benevolent, non-terrestrial entities.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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