WRESTLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrestler mean? 

• WRESTLER (noun)
  The noun WRESTLER has 1 sense:

1. combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground

  Familiarity information: WRESTLER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRESTLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Combatant who tries to throw opponent to the ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

grappler; matman; wrestler

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

battler; belligerent; combatant; fighter; scrapper (someone who fights (or is fighting))

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

bantamweight (weighs 115-126 pounds)

featherweight (weighs 126-139 pounds)

flyweight (weighs no more than 115 pounds)

heavyweight (a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds)

light heavyweight (a wrestler who weighs 192-214 pounds)

lightweight (a wrestler who weighs 139-154 pounds)

middleweight (a wrestler who weighs 172-192 pounds)

sumo wrestler (a wrestler who participates in sumo (a Japanese form of wrestling))

welterweight (a wrestler who weighs 154-172 pounds)

Derivation:

wrestle (combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force)

 Context examples 

“A fair wager!” cried all the travellers, moving back their benches and trestles, so as to give fair field for the wrestlers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He bounded back from his perilous foeman; but the other, heated by the bout, rushed madly after him, and so gave the practised wrestler the very vantage for which he had planned.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)