Lexic.us

Definition of Swimmer

1. Noun. A trained athlete who participates in swimming meets. "He was an Olympic swimmer"

2. Noun. A person who travels through the water by swimming. "He is not a good swimmer"

Definition of Swimmer

1. n. One who swims.

Definition of Swimmer

1. Noun. One who swims. ¹

2. Noun. (chiefly in the plural colloquial) A sperm. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Swimmer

1. one that swims [n -S] - See also: swims

Lexicographical Neighbors of Swimmer

swim like a fish swim meet swim the Thames swim the Tiber swim upstream swim with sharks swimathon swimathons swimbladder swimfin

swimfins swimlane swimmable swimmably swimmed swimmer's itch swimmeret swimmerets swimmers swimmest

swimmeth swimmier swimmiest swimmily swimming bath swimming bell swimming cap swimming costume

Literary usage of Swimmer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Interferometer Experiments in Acoustics and Gravitation by Carl Barus (1921)
"The swimmer under pressure.—Inasmuch as the preceding method (in which the air contents of the swimmer were always observed by the aid of exhaustion) have ..."

2. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"when they had to deal with a difficulty, just as fear of drowning makes a swimmer of a man. In this way many have discovered their own courage, knowledge, ..."

3. The Illustrated Magazine of Art (1854)
"THE EXPERT swimmer. AS soon as the summer is nearly over, ... He was a capital swimmer, and being now put upon his mettle in more senses than one, ..."

4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Hoffman, Phoebe—Continued Mount Adams; poem. Art World 2:21 Ap '17 swimmer; poem. Art World 2:452 Ag '17 Hoffman, Ruth C. Father ot waters; poem. ..."

5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"THE SURF-swimmer. [South-Sea Idyls. 1873.] WE found the floor of the valley very solemn and very lovely, when we at last got down into it. ..."

6. Interferometer Experiments in Acoustics and Gravitation by Carl Barus (1921)
"The swimmer under pressure.—Inasmuch as the preceding method (in which the air contents of the swimmer were always observed by the aid of exhaustion) have ..."

7. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Joseph Jacobs (1892)
"when they had to deal with a difficulty, just as fear of drowning makes a swimmer of a man. In this way many have discovered their own courage, knowledge, ..."

8. The Illustrated Magazine of Art (1854)
"THE EXPERT swimmer. AS soon as the summer is nearly over, ... He was a capital swimmer, and being now put upon his mettle in more senses than one, ..."

9. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1917)
"Hoffman, Phoebe—Continued Mount Adams; poem. Art World 2:21 Ap '17 swimmer; poem. Art World 2:452 Ag '17 Hoffman, Ruth C. Father ot waters; poem. ..."

10. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"THE SURF-swimmer. [South-Sea Idyls. 1873.] WE found the floor of the valley very solemn and very lovely, when we at last got down into it. ..."

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