Crossword clues for swordsman
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Swordsman \Swords"man\, n.; pl. Swordsmen.
A soldier; a fighting man.
One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person skilled at using swords in sport or combat; a fencer. 2 A person who fights with a sword. 3 (context informal English) A man who is a skillful or enthusiastic practitioner of sexual intercourse.
WordNet
n. someone skilled at fencing [syn: fencer]
Wikipedia
Swordsman (Jacques Duquesne) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. His first appearance was in The Avengers Vol.1 #19 (Aug. 1965) and was created by Stan Lee and Don Heck. The Swordsman was introduced as an enemy of Hawkeye and the Avengers. The character has since appeared as both a supervillain and a superhero.
Swordsman is a 2013 Chinese wuxia television series adapted from Louis Cha's novel The Smiling, Proud Wanderer. The series is written and produced by Yu Zheng, starring Wallace Huo, Joe Chen, Yuan Shanshan, Chen Xiao, Yang Rong, Howie Huang, Wu Junyu, Deng Sha, and Bryan Leung. Shooting started on 24 March 2015 in Xiandu, Jinyun County, Lishui, Zhejiang. It was first aired in China on Hunan Television from 6 February to 4 March 2013. The plot deviates significantly from the novel, with Dongfang Bubai depicted as a woman (instead of a castrated man) and having a romantic affair with Linghu Chong.
A swordsman is a practitioner of swordsmanship.
Swordsman may also refer to:
- Swordsman (comics), a Marvel Comics character
- Swordsman Online, a martial arts MMORPG from Perfect World Entertainment
- The Swordsman (1948 film), a US film
- The Swordsman (1974 film), a British film
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The Swordsman (1990 film), a Hong Kong wuxia film
- Swordsman II, its 1992 sequel
- The East Is Red, the third movie in the trilogy, also known as '' Swordsman III''
- Swordsman (TV series), a Chinese wuxia TV series
Usage examples of "swordsman".
Mostly they were Japanese, and it is characteristic that from the first it was contemplated that the aeronaut should be a swordsman.
With a grinding rumble, an entire section of the pile gave way just below where Alec stood, sweeping the swordsman over the edge.
He had a tolerably large escort: two hundred Hebrian arquebusiers and swordsmen and eighty heavy cavalry armed with lances and paired matchlock pistols.
He came from Naples, was a great gamester, a skilled swordsman, and was always ready to extract himself from a difficulty by a duel.
Their capes, crimson to announce who they were, billowed out behind as they charged past the swordsmen, lancers, standard-bearers, and finally Brogan.
Ganmiddich roundhouse with a troop of only two hundred swordsmen, Cluff Drybannock had taken to braiding his waist-length hair with rings of opal.
Count de Coude is one of the best swordsmen in Paris, and by far the best shot in all France.
Arcole Blayke, swordsman and gambler, considering marriage to an exiled serving girl?
Neither Phystal nor Hamas was a good swordsman, and I could easily have overcome them in fair fight, but I could see that these new tactics of Fal Sivas were almost certain to prove my undoing.
He was a year older than her, eighteen, a goshi and the son of a goshi--an average swordsman, average soldier but to her her dream person.
I remembered an individual of that name who was a fencing-master in Vicenza, and on looking at him again his aspect, though much changed left no doubt as to the identity of the swordsman and the count.
The city of Lunaria burst into flames, as every one of the rebel horsemen fell, and their swordsmen were pinned between the fire and the knights.
The giant called Brogar and the dark swordsman who gave his name as Mawl looked worth another dozen, by themselves alone.
Crown did not want that silver lifeline jeopardized by armies of picaro swordsmen hijacking the silver trains along trails and highways.
Gavlok and the squires sat in silence, stupefied by the enormity of the disaster, the Mountain Swordsman Radd Falcontop spoke up.