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sportsmen

sportsmen is the plural of sportsman.

Meaning of sportsman

Noun

sportsman (plural sportsmen)

  1. (UK) A man who engages in sports; an athlete.
    • On the contrary, the difference between the worse male and female sportsmen was 54 ms. Among the male sportsmen [...]. Among the female sportsmen [...]2014, Libor Flemr, Jiří Němec, Kateřina Kudláčková, editors, Physical activity in science and practice: Conference Proceedings | In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the...
  2. (dated) A man who engages in country sports, such as hunting or fishing.
    • At last extinguishing the fire, he took the idol up very unceremoniously, and bagged it again in his grego pocket as carelessly as if he were a sportsman bagging a dead woodcock.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
  3. A man who exhibits good sportsmanship, or who exhibits sportsmanship as specified (good or bad).

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Questions about sportsmen

What is sportsmen the plural of?
Sportsmen is the plural of sportsman.

Words near sportsmen in the dictionary

  1. Sportsmans
  2. sportsmanship
  3. sportsmanships
  4. sportsmedical
  5. sportsmedicine
  6. sportsmen
  7. sportsome
  8. sportspeak
  9. sportspeople
  10. sportsperson
  11. sportspersons

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