spacesuit

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a sealed protective suit with life-support equipment that allows an astronaut to survive and work in space or a near-vacuum

   Before leaving the spacecraft, the astronaut checked every seal on her spacesuit.

A compound of space + suit, recorded from 1920 for a garment designed to protect its wearer in space. Space entered English through Old French espace from Latin spatium ("room or extent"); suit originally denoted a set of matching things and comes through French from Latin sequi ("to follow").

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