SWORDSMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does swordsman mean? 

• SWORDSMAN (noun)
  The noun SWORDSMAN has 1 sense:

1. someone skilled at fencing

  Familiarity information: SWORDSMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWORDSMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone skilled at fencing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fencer; swordsman

Hypernyms ("swordsman" is a kind of...):

battler; belligerent; combatant; fighter; scrapper (someone who fights (or is fighting))

Derivation:

swordsmanship (skill in fencing)

 Context examples 

“I have heard that he is a fine swordsman.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mort Dieu! cried he, it is my little swordsman of Bordeaux.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“The man is a noted swordsman and far above your strength.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sir Nigel stooped to avoid it, and at the same instant turned a thrust from the Genoese swordsman, but, his foot slipping in a pool of blood, he fell heavily to the ground.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have served under Sir Thomas de Bray, who was as jolly as a pie, and a lusty swordsman until he got too fat for his harness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the other hand, Alleyne had used his weapons in constant exercise and practice on every day for many months, and being by nature quick of eye and prompt of hand, he might pass now as no mean swordsman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A further protection lay in the broad and powerful guard which crossed the hilt, and which was furnished with a deep and narrow notch, in which an expert swordsman might catch his foeman's blade, and by a quick turn of his wrist might snap it across.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here and there bounded Sir Nigel, his head erect, his jaunty plume fluttering in the air, while his dark opponent sent in crashing blow upon blow, following fiercely up with cut and with thrust, but never once getting past the practised blade of the skilled swordsman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)