spaceman
Americannoun
Gender
See -man.
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Origin of spaceman
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Each member adopts a specific stage identity: Simmons the demon; Stanley the starchild; Frehley the spaceman, and Criss the catman.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
UK spaceman Tim Peake is stepping down permanently from his role as a European astronaut.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2023
And so we skip back to meet the spaceman, in his fresh Earthman suit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
The Nativity unveiled by the Vatican last week evokes an out-of-this-world vibe, with an oval-headed Joseph, a spaceman as one of the Wise Men, an extraterrestrial Archangel Gabriel and bulky farm animals.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 17, 2020
When he shows, he shows correct but sometime he act like a spaceman or something.
From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
She tells the fascinating story of how spacemen and technology inspired the creation of one of the most popular kids TV shows of all time, Teletubbies.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2022
But that approach was abandoned after they found themselves essentially building another Space Shuttle Discovery, and they threw out modernized designs for the spacemen, too.
From The Verge ● Jun. 18, 2022
The two spacemen were viewed with a mixture of passing curiosity and snarling resentment.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2021
“I’m trying to get the planet ready for spacemen, because they’re sure to land soon.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2020
He’d show up at my house or I’d go up to his and we’d be off to the mountains, playing cowboys or spacemen or pirates or whatever we could think up.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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