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.

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

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From bat + -s- + -man.

From bat + -s- + -man.

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Forms

plural: batsmen
Singularbatsman
Pluralbatsmen

irregular · Lesson

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms
cricket:batswoman

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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