moonnaut
English
Etymology
From moon + -naut
Noun
moonnaut (plural moonnauts)
- (rare, nonstandard) Someone trained to live and work on a moon; an explorer of a moon
- 1969, The Quill, Volume 57, Society of Professional Journalists, page 38:
- An outstanding lineup of big-name speakers from the profession (and maybe a "Moonnaut").
- 1969, Harvard Bulletin: Volume 72, Digitized edition, Harvard Bulletin, published 2009, page 9:
- Has anybody remarked that Moonnaut Armstrong wasn't really the first?
- 1975, Galería Wildenstein, Art in the Argentine, Digitized edition, published 2008:
- The National Air Space Museum in Washington acquired Raquel Forner's "The Return of the Moonnaut", chosen because of the artist's originality in vizualizing man's conquests in the outer space.
- 2012 March 3, comment, “Gingrich: Interior Sec Salazar Should Be Replaced Along with Energy Sec Chu”, in Free Republic, retrieved 2012-08-12:
- Thats about as good as Your Moon Colony of 1000 Moonnauts in 8 Years!!
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Related terms
- lunanaut
- lunarnaut