Meaning

5 senses
  1. A player of the batting side now on the field.

  2. The player now receiving strike; the striker.

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

  4. (historical)An officer who used a pair of hand-held bats to signal to aircraft as they came in to land on the flight deck.

  5. (archaic)A hitter.

More definitions
  • (baseball) a male ballplayer who is batting

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Bangladesh national cricket team batsman Nasir Hossain said this.

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  2. Cricket fans across India are preparing to bid farewell to legendary batsman Sachin Tendulkar, who is retiring after an extraordinary 24-year career.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From bat + -s- + -man.

From bat + -s- + -man.

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Forms

plural: batsmen
Singularbatsman
Pluralbatsmen

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Synonyms

2 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms
cricket:batswoman

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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