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JOHN GLENN
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• JOHN GLENN (noun)
The noun JOHN GLENN has 1 sense:
1. made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921-)
Familiarity information: JOHN GLENN used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921-)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Glenn; John Glenn; John Herschel Glenn Jr.
Instance hypernyms:
astronaut; cosmonaut; spaceman (a person trained to travel in a spacecraft)
senator (a member of a senate)
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