starsailor

English

Etymology

From star +‎ sailor.

Noun

starsailor (plural starsailors)

  1. (science fiction) A member of the crew of a spaceship or other spacecraft; a space voyager or traveller.
    Synonym: spacefarer
    • 2000, Bill Baldwin, Canby's Legion, page 257:
      He glanced to his left where the nincompoop Lotember saluted and waved to marching ranks of starsailors as if he actually knew something about running a space fleet.
    • 2011, Simon Reynolds, Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing About Hip Rock and Hip Hop:
      Getting back to Miles's kinship with the post-psychedelic starsailors and aquanauts, the music of Dark Magus, On the Corner, Agharta, et al. offers a drastic intensification of rock's three most radical aspects: space, timbre and groove […]
    • 2013, SF Said, Phoenix, page 29:
      Here, she found a small landing bay that housed a rusty cargo ship, with a couple of old starsailors beside it.
    • 2018, Heriberto Figueroa Rivera, ChronoExtasis, page 53:
      Destiny, I'm the tailor of
      Your wish, I'm your starsailor.
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