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sportsman
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who engages in sports [syn: sport , sportswoman ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Sportsman may refer to: Sportsperson , someone who enjoys sport Sportsmanship , conforming to all the rules of game and acting in a fair manner towards the opponent Sportsman's Association UK gun rights group Sportsman of the Year , an award given by Sports ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1706, from sports + man (n.). Sportswoman attested from 1754.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context UK English) A man who engages in sports. A male athlete. 2 (context dated English) A man who engages in country sports, such as hunting or fishing.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sportsman \Sports"man\ (sp[=o]rts"man), n.;pl. Sportsmen (-men). One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE black ▪ For the most part, black sportsmen accept that they have advantages, in an unspecified way, over their white counterparts. ▪ It should also be understood that black sportsmen work sedulously at perpetuating ...
Usage examples of sportsman.
Whether it is that bears make such a row when wounded, or whether there be anything in the smell, I know not, but I have heard many sportsmen allude to the fact.
A few handfuls of blady grass supply a sheaf of missiles, and with such cheap ammunition the sportsman is justified in providing himself profusely when intent upon the destruction of shy birds.
Travellers and sportsmen often meet with this marmot, and speak of its sitting up in groups, and suddenly disappearing into its burrows.
The bridegroom was a good-looking young fellow, Jean Patu, the richest farmer in the neighborhood, but he was above all things, an ardent sportsman who seemed to take leave of his senses in order to satisfy that passion, and who spent large sums on his dogs, his keepers, his ferrets and his guns.
There was no reason why Meinard Stam, retired army officer, sportsman and nature lover, should not become interested in a young woman.
IV A-HUNTING OF THE DEER If civilization owes a debt of gratitude to the self-sacrificing sportsmen who have cleared the Adirondack regions of catamounts and savage trout, what shall be said of the army which has so nobly relieved them of the terror of the deer?
The Marsgazelle had been a marvelous feat of bioengineering for its day, when an earlier generation of sportsmen had turned it loose to stock the Martian deserts.
He had been a guest on the adjoining estate during the past week, shooting with the fervor of the true sportsman, making love in the intervals to Adeline Cavan, and apparently in the best of spirits.
The Bird of Paradise might float in the sunshine unharmed all its beautiful life long, although all the sportsmen of Cockaigne were to keep firing at the star-like plumage during the Christmas holydays of a thousand years.
It was a distant cousin to the inflatable rafts and foldboats used by sportsmen and explorers on the whiter waters of the Galactic Milieu.
He was intimate with cracksmen and fences, magsmen, goniffs, and shofulmen, the swell mob, the fancy sportsmen and sporting houses, the citadels of the underworld.
Lieutenant Raymond Kerman, first in his year at the Academy, a top sportsman at Harrow School, the son of wealthy, well-known North London parents, heir to the Kerman shipping line.
Colonel Raden and Mr Bandicott accepted your challenge, and in any case they were sportsmen, and you knew it.
This opinion was shared by Lady Silchester, who excused it, however, by saying that gentlemen always dislike to be plagued by children, and that no one could expect such a thorough sportsman as Rotherham to take to Gerard, who had no taste for sport, a very bad seat, and far too little spirit.
Until sportsmen begin to measure bodies and tails separately it will, I fear, be a difficult matter to fix on any correct formula.