spaceman
Americannoun
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See -man.
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Origin of spaceman
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The action-comedy favourite once again stars Tim Allen as spaceman Buzz Lightyear, Tom Hanks as a pull-string cowboy doll named Woody, and Joan Cusack as cowgirl Jessie.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
And so we skip back to meet the spaceman, in his fresh Earthman suit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
On the road, she meets a prophet she shares a strange connection with — an obsession with an obscure graphic novel about a spaceman named Dr. Eleven.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 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
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 spacemen earned thousands of dollars for sometimes-staged events about their lives.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 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
The way they looked in the moonlight, slogging in the dust, I could imagine them to be spacemen on the moon.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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