spacefarern.
/ˈspeɪsˌfɛːrə/, U.S. /ˈspeɪsˌfɛrər/ A person who travels in space, an astronaut. Also: a space traveller from another planet.
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society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > astronaut or traveller in space
space flyer1911
astronaut1928
rocket man1931
spaceman1932
spacefarer1936
cosmonaut1959
man-in-space1959
taikonaut1998
1936 B. Olsen in Amazing Stories Dec. 71/2 The three spacefarers blasted their way through that perilous merry-go-round of cosmic junk known as 'the zone of asteroids'.
1963 P. Anderson After Doomsday 1968 40 By that time, ‘civilization’ was equated in the minds of space-farers with the ability to travel through space.
1974 New Scientist 27 June 772 Such an asteroid-ark might one day encounter spacefarers of another civilisation, members of an intellectual brotherhood of the stars.
1987 H. L. Shipman Space 2000 xiii. 318 Her career as spacefarer and teacher was cut short in the fireball that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger.
1992 Discover Feb. 25/1 He thinks all spacefarers should have interpersonal training.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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