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NEIL ARMSTRONG

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Overview

NEIL ARMSTRONG (noun)
  The noun NEIL ARMSTRONG has 1 sense:

1. United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)play

  Familiarity information: NEIL ARMSTRONG used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


NEIL ARMSTRONG (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Armstrong; Neil Armstrong

Instance hypernyms:

astronaut; cosmonaut; spaceman (a person trained to travel in a spacecraft)


 Context examples 


Neil Armstrong stepped on the surface of the moon technically the next day, July 21, at 2:56 UTC.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Running low on fuel, Commander Neil Armstrong only had a few minutes to find a suitable spot to land, but he was finding only rocky terrain that was inappropriate to settle down on.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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