HEAVYWEIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heavyweight mean? 

• HEAVYWEIGHT (noun)
  The noun HEAVYWEIGHT has 5 senses:

1. an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds

2. a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds

3. a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds

4. a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

5. a person of exceptional importance and reputation

  Familiarity information: HEAVYWEIGHT used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAVYWEIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

boxer; pugilist (someone who fights with his fists for sport)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

grappler; matman; wrestler (combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

gladiator; prizefighter (a professional boxer)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A very large person; impressive in size or qualities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

giant; heavyweight; hulk; whale

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

large person (a person of greater than average size)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A person of exceptional importance and reputation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

behemoth; colossus; giant; heavyweight; titan

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

important person; influential person; personage (a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events)

 Context examples 

The heavyweight planet, which has the mass of 10 Jupiters, has been observed repeatedly, allowing astronomers to accumulate a relatively large trove of data.

(WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water, NASA)

There was no exact limit between the light, middle, and heavyweights, and yet it would make a very great difference to the standing of a boxer whether he should be regarded as the heaviest of the light-weights, or the lightest of the heavy-weights.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At a time when the majority of mammals were shrew- or mouse-sized—mere shadows of dinosaurs—Vintana was a super heavyweight, estimated to have had a body mass of about 20 pounds, two or three times the size of an adult groundhog today.

(Scientists discover fossil of bizarre groundhog-like mammal on Madagascar, NSF)