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SPORTSWOMAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sportswoman mean?
• SPORTSWOMAN (noun)
The noun SPORTSWOMAN has 1 sense:
1. someone who engages in sports
Familiarity information: SPORTSWOMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who engages in sports
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("sportswoman" is a kind of...):
Context examples
"Oh, it's nothing underhand," he assured me. "Miss Baker's a great sportswoman, you know, and she'd never do anything that wasn't all right."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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