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    SWIMMER

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A person who travels through the water by swimmingplay

    Example:

    he is not a good swimmer

    Synonyms:

    bather; natator; swimmer

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

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

    traveler; traveller (a person who changes location)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "swimmer"):

    floater (a swimmer who floats in the water)

    aquanaut; skin-diver (an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder)

    surfboarder; surfer (someone who engages in surfboarding)

    Derivation:

    swim (travel through water)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A trained athlete who participates in swimming meetsplay

    Example:

    he was an Olympic swimmer

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting people

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

    athlete; jock (a person trained to compete in sports)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "swimmer"):

    backstroker (someone who swims the backstroke)

    breaststroker (someone who swims the breaststroke)

    diver; plunger (someone who dives (into water))

    skinny-dipper (a naked swimmer)

    Instance hyponyms:

    Ederle; Gertrude Caroline Ederle; Gertrude Ederle (United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1906-2003))

    Derivation:

    swim (travel through water)

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