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A woman who engages in sports; a female athlete.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
someone who engages in sports
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sport, sportsman
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: athlete, jock
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh1 Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des- Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-téh2 Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh2 Proto-Italic *portā Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Proto-Italic *portāō Latin portāre Old French porter Anglo-Norman desporterbor. Middle English disporten Middle English sporten English sport English -s English sports Proto-Germanic *wībą Proto-West Germanic *wīb Old English wīf Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Old English wīfmann Middle English woman Middle English -woman English -woman English sportswoman From sports + -woman.
Across languages
Translations
45 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Albanian:
sportiste
— woman who engages in sports
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Arabic:
رِيَاضِيَّة
(riyāḍiyya)
— woman who engages in sports
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Arabic:
رياضية
(reyāḍeya)
— woman who engages in sports
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Belarusian:
спартсме́нка
(spartsmjénka)
— woman who engages in sports
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Belarusian:
спарто́ўка
(spartówka)
— woman who engages in sports
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Belarusian:
атле́тка
(atljétka)
— woman who engages in sports
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Bulgarian:
спорти́стка
(sportístka)
— woman who engages in sports
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Bulgarian:
атле́тка
(atlétka)
— woman who engages in sports
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Chinese Mandarin:
運動員 /运动员
(yùndòngyuán)
— woman who engages in sports
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Chinese Mandarin:
女運動員 /女运动员
(nǚ yùndòngyuán)
— woman who engages in sports
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Czech:
sportovkyně
— woman who engages in sports
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Danish:
sportskvinde
— woman who engages in sports
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Danish:
idrætskvinde
— woman who engages in sports
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Dutch:
sportvrouw
— woman who engages in sports
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Esperanto:
sportistino
— woman who engages in sports
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Finnish:
urheilijatar
— woman who engages in sports
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Finnish:
urheilija
— woman who engages in sports
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French:
sportive
— woman who engages in sports
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German:
Sportlerin
— woman who engages in sports
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Greek:
αθλήτρια
(athlítria)
— woman who engages in sports
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Hungarian:
sportolónő
— woman who engages in sports
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Icelandic:
íþróttakona
— woman who engages in sports
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Italian:
sportiva
— woman who engages in sports
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Japanese:
スポーツウーマン
(supōtsu ūman)
— woman who engages in sports
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Korean:
스포츠우먼
(seupocheuumeon)
— woman who engages in sports
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Latvian:
sportiste
— woman who engages in sports
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Lithuanian:
sportininkė
— woman who engages in sports
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Macedonian:
спорти́стка
(sportístka)
— woman who engages in sports
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Norwegian Bokmål:
idrettskvinne
— woman who engages in sports
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Pannonian Rusyn:
спортистка
(sportistka)
— woman who engages in sports
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Polish:
sportsmenka
— woman who engages in sports
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Polish:
atletka
— woman who engages in sports
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Portuguese:
esportiva
— woman who engages in sports
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Romanian:
sportivă
— woman who engages in sports
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Russian:
спортсме́нка
(sportsménka)
— woman who engages in sports
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Russian:
атле́тка
(atlétka)
— woman who engages in sports
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Serbo-Croatian:
спортисткиња
— woman who engages in sports
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Serbo-Croatian:
sportiskinja
— woman who engages in sports
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Slovak:
športovkyňa
— woman who engages in sports
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Slovene:
športnica
— woman who engages in sports
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Spanish:
deportista
— woman who engages in sports
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Swedish:
idrottskvinna
— woman who engages in sports
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Ukrainian:
спортсме́нка
(sportsménka)
— woman who engages in sports
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Ukrainian:
спорто́вка
(sportóvka)
— woman who engages in sports
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Ukrainian:
атле́тка
(atlétka)
— woman who engages in sports