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say it: AH-kwuh-naht
aquanaut is a noun meaning "an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder". It is pronounced /ˈɑkwəˌnɑt/ — AH-kwuh-naht. It carries 2 recorded senses.
an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder
a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aquanaut come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.