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Definition of Batman
1. Noun. An orderly assigned to serve a British military officer.
Definition of Batman
1. n. A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
2. n. A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.
Definition of Batman
1. Proper noun. A province in Turkey. ¹
2. Proper noun. The capital city of Batman Province, Turkey. ¹
3. Proper noun. A fictional hero of DC Comics whose name is Bruce Wayne and who uses a bat-themed costume and equipment and regularly has the assistance of his sidekick Robin. ¹
4. Noun. (military) A servant or valet to an army officer. ¹
5. Noun. A unit of weight used in the East. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Batman
1. an orderly [n BATMEN] - See also: orderly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Batman
Literary usage of Batman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The principal navigations voyages traffiques and discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1903)
"The 6 Allom at 2. bists and a halfe the batman and lesse. great batman is 12.
li. ... 7 Rice at halfe a bist the batman. 8 Gals at halfe a bist the batman. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1885)
"batman of tin-Mind as the Bodie,' s that he collected 6700 books for the Dedicated
to Lord Hin archbishop, though this is probably im exaggeration. ..."
3. Select Poetry, Chiefly Devotional, of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth by Edward Farr (1845)
"STEPHEN batman. STEPHEN batman, professor in divinity, was a native of Bruton in
Somersetshire : he died in 1581. batman was the author of several prose and ..."
4. Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan, Khokand, Bukhara, and Kuldja by Eugene Schuyler (1876)
"The unit of weight is the batman, or rather perhaps the ... The batman—which was
a weight known to Russia in the middle ages, and still exists not only in ..."
5. A History of the Colony of Victoria: From Its Discovery to Its Absorption by Henry Gyles Turner (1904)
"... after the lull in the excitement which followed on the gold discoveries, the
rival claims of batman and Fawkner to be considered the founder of the ..."
6. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"(Old slang), to " stand buff," to bear the brunt, to pay the piper; also "to
boast," given as a very old word by "batman uppon Bartholome," 1582. ..."
7. The Progress of Australasia in the Nineteenth Century by Timothy Augustine Coghlan, Thomas T. Ewing (1903)
"In the following year a magistrate was appointed to the batman settlement at
Corio Bay, ... batman after a short struggle had abandoned his claims, ..."
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