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SKIN-DIVER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does skin-diver mean?
• SKIN-DIVER (noun)
The noun SKIN-DIVER has 1 sense:
1. an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder
Familiarity information: SKIN-DIVER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
aquanaut; skin-diver
Hypernyms ("skin-diver" is a kind of...):
bather; natator; swimmer (a person who travels through the water by swimming)
Derivation:
skin-dive (swim underwater with no breathing apparatus other than a snorkel)
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