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SPACEFARING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spacefaring mean?
• SPACEFARING (noun)
The noun SPACEFARING has 1 sense:
1. a voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere
Familiarity information: SPACEFARING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A voyage outside the Earth's atmosphere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
space travel; spacefaring; spaceflight
Hypernyms ("spacefaring" is a kind of...):
voyage (a journey to some distant place)
Domain member category:
gravity-assist ((spaceflight) a trajectory that passes close to a planetary body in order to gain energy from its gravitational field)
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