The
New York Yankees phenom finished this year’s competition with a whopping 47 homers.
Judge continued his unbelievable 2017 season, becoming the fourth Yankee to win the Home Run Derby.
It
took a long time for a taikonaut to join the list of cosmonauts and
astronauts who have gone into orbit around Earth and (in a few cases)
ventured beyond that, to the Moon. But China has now arrived as a space
power, and one mark of this has been the International Astronautical
Federation's decision to hold its 64th congress in Beijing http://econ.st/191TteS
Computer-generated song phenom gets 'her' own weekly radio show
(05/04)
phenom
(fĭ-nŏm') 
n. Slang
A phenomenon, especially a remarkable or outstanding person.
astronaut
Pronunciation:
/ˈastrənɔːt/
noun
a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft.
Origin:
1920s: from
astro-, on the pattern of
aeronaut and
aquanaut
Etymology
The term was coined on 19 May 1998 by Chiew Lee Yih (
Mandarin:
趙裡昱 (trad.) /
赵里昱 (simpl.)
Zhào Lǐyù)
from Malaysia, who used it first in newsgroups. Almost simultaneously,
Chen Lan coined it for use in the Western media based on
Mandarin (
太空 tàikōng),
space.
(Source: Mail & Guardian) This follows the pattern established by the terms
astronaut and
cosmonaut (which share the
-naut suffix) for having different terms for space workers denoting country of origin.
Noun
taikonaut (
plural taikonauts)
A person who travels in space for the Chinese space program; a Chinese
astronaut.
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