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Batsman

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Sports The player at bat in cricket and baseball.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A player of the batting side now on the field

n. The player now receiving strike; the striker

n. Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.; in baseball, the batsman is usually called the batter.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who wields the bat in base-ball, cricket, and similar games; a batter.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. (baseball) a ballplayer who is batting

Word Usage

"In that role Prior has flourished and his keeping has improved to such an extent that the order in which the terms batsman and wicketkeeper are joined has become irrelevant."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

ballplayer baseball player

Variant

batter

Hyponym

designated hitter switch-hitter bunter pinch hitter whiffer

Form

batsmanship

Synonym

Words with the same meaning