SPUTNIK as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a Russian artificial satellite
   Usage Example(s)
   • Sputnik was the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth
   Hypernyms(s) sputnik is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • satellite (what does satellite mean?)
   • artificial satellite (what does artificial satellite mean?)
   • orbiter (what does orbiter mean?)