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SPORTSMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who engages in sports
Synonyms:
sport; sportsman; sportswoman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sportsman" is a kind of...):
athlete; jock (a person trained to compete in sports)
Derivation:
sportsmanship (fairness in following the rules of the game)
Context examples:
I won't undertake to say what it was, but I'll risk my reputation as a sportsman that it wasn't any bird that ever I clapped eyes on in my life.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir John was a sportsman, Lady Middleton a mother.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The latter was Colonel Ross, the well-known sportsman; the other, Inspector Gregory, a man who was rapidly making his name in the English detective service.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I am a born sportsman.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The landlord, an old sportsman and ringsider, ran out to greet so well-known a Corinthian as Sir Charles Tregellis.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Lord John Roxton's reputation as a sportsman and a traveler is, of course, world-famous, said the chairman; at the same time it would certainly be as well to have a member of the Press upon such an expedition.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If this open weather holds much longer, said Mrs. Jennings, when they met at breakfast the following morning, Sir John will not like leaving Barton next week; 'tis a sad thing for sportsmen to lose a day's pleasure.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He wore a very shiny top hat and a neat suit of sober black, which made him look what he was—a smart young City man, of the class who have been labeled cockneys, but who give us our crack volunteer regiments, and who turn out more fine athletes and sportsmen than any body of men in these islands.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But you have one quality which is very rare in a German, Mr. Von Bork: you are a sportsman and you will bear me no ill-will when you realise that you, who have outwitted so many other people, have at last been outwitted yourself.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Even the imminent outbreak of war and the renewed threats of Napoleon were secondary things in the eyes of the sportsmen—and the sportsmen in those days made a large half of the population.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
