Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gagarin
1 sense of gagarin
Sense 1
Gagarin, Yuri Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin -- (Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968))
INSTANCE OF=> astronaut, spaceman, cosmonaut -- (a person trained to travel in a spacecraft; "the Russians called their astronauts cosmonauts")