batsman

English

Etymology

bat +‎ -s- +‎ -man

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbætsmən/

• Audio (AU)

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Noun

batsman (plural batsmen)

1. (cricket) A player of the batting side now on the field.
2. (cricket) The player now receiving strike; the striker.
   • 2001 June 19, Julia Price, “Julia's Ashes Diary 2001”, in Women's Cricket in Australia -Ashes Tour 2001‎^[1], southernstars.org, archived from the original on 22 March 2015:

     The batsman, Kathryn Leng, (who has played for quite a few years for England) asked the umpire dumbfounded if Charlie was going to bowl with a helmet on.

3. (cricket) Any player selected for his or her team principally to bat, as opposed to a bowler.
4. (baseball, now rare) A hitter.
5. (aviation, 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.

Usage notes

• The term batsman is applied to both male and female cricketers; batswoman is much rarer.
• In baseball, batsman is rarely used outside of the phrase 'hit batsman'.

Synonyms

• (baseball): hitter, batter
• (cricket): batter (both male and female)

Antonyms

• (cricket): batswoman (female) (when "batsman" is treated as only male)

Hypernyms

• (male cricketer): batter (both male and female)
• (cricket): cricketer

Hyponyms

• (cricket): batswoman (female) (when "batsman" is treated as both male and female)

Derived terms

• batsmanship
• batswoman
• hit batsman
• opening batsman

 

Related terms

• bat

Translations

cricket: player of the batting side on the field

• Italian: battitore m
• Maori: kaihauhau

cricket: striker

• Catalan: batedor (ca) m
• Finnish: lyöjä (fi)
• Italian: colpitore m

cricket: player principally selected to bat

• Finnish: lyöjä (fi)

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• Russian: ^{(please verify)} бэ́тсмен m (bɛ́tsmɛn), бэ́ттер (ru) m (bɛ́ttɛr)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} slagman c

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• Bantams, Batmans, bantams, batmans