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Webster 1913 Edition


Sportsman

Sports′man

(spōrts′man)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Sportsmen
(-men)
.
One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sportsman

SPORTSMAN

,
Noun.
[sport and man.]
1.
One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes and fowls.
2.
One skilled in the sports of the field.

Definition 2024


sportsman

sportsman

English

Noun

sportsman (plural sportsmen)

  1. (Britain) A man who engages in sports. A male athlete.
  2. (dated) A man who engages in country sports, such as hunting or fishing.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 3
      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.

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